Enraged people in Pandhrinath locality of the city here on Monday went berserk after the death of a person in the Indore municipal corporation’s evacuation drive. Apparently angered by the incident, the agitated people ran amock, pelting stones on police jawans and sleuths of the Indore municipal corporation, besides damaging and torching large number of vehicles on the road.
In the retaliatory incident of people, a SDM and many police jawans have sustained injuries.
According to report, the incident occurred when a demolition squad of Indore municipal corporation accompanied by IMC senior officials reached Shekhar Nagar on Monday at 12 pm and started deomolishing some houses through JCB machine. During the course of demolition of houses, a person identified as Anil who at the time of incident was sleeping inside his house, got buried inside the debris of the fallen house and died.
As soon as the news of the death of Anil spread in the locality, the agitated people of the locality along with a woman started gathering at the incident site. From there they rushed to IMC zonal office at Harsiddhi and vent their anger on the cars parked outside the zonal office. When Pandhrinath police came to know about the incident, Pandhrinath TI accompanied by large posse of police force rushed to IMC zonal office at Harsiddhi but the agitated people threw stones at the police jawans leaving many police jawans injured in the incident.
The agitated people also gheroed Pandhrinath TI and manhandled him. Though the police in retaliation tried to chase away the crowd, it hardly deterred the enraged crowd and they started pelting stones on them, leaving many police jawans injured. While one section of the crowd were throwing stones at the police jawans, another group of the crowd advanced towards the IMC zonal office, locked its employees and torched many cars parked outside the zonal office.
It was only after arrival of large posse of police force they made the crowd retreat.
IMC sources informed that the corporation had shifted residents of Shekhar Nagar sometime back to Gandhi Nagar in the new flats constructed by the IMC. As majority of the people had relocated to the new site at Gandhi Nagar, the IMC squad reached Shekhar Nagar on Monday to dismantle the houses evacuated by the people. While they were demolishing house, the IMC squad had no idea that the deceased was sleeping inside one of the houses.