Delhi: Security personnel were deployed at New Friends Colony
On Tuesday Security personnel were deployed at New Friends Colony as the South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s began its planned demolition drive.
A bulldozer was being brought to the area for the anti-encroachment exercise.
The BJP-run civic body was carrying out the first phase of the anti-encroachment exercise from May 4 to May 13 in several parts of South Delhi.
An anti-encroachment demolition drive was also underway in Mangolpuri by the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC).
A day ago, passive protests were seen in Shaheen Bagh when civic body officials reached the spot with bulldozers, following which the demolition drive was halted.
The local MLA belonging to the ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had also joined the agitation staged by the locals
