Over 2,000 illegal hutments to be demolished at Chandola lake in Ahmedabad: Action by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation follows an early-morning swoop in which police picked up 890 suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from a slum area.

Action by the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation follows an early-morning swoop in which police picked up 890 suspected illegal Bangladeshi immigrants from a slum area.

Exactly 72 hours after police banged on the doors of people who were asleep, rounded up 890 of them and paraded them to the Crime Branch headquarters on suspicion of being illegal Bangladeshi immigrants, the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) demolished parts of the slum area known as Chandola Talav na Chhapra on Tuesday.

The residents scrambled to gather their few valuables and move out of the way of the approaching bulldozers.

Speaking to The Indian Express on the demolitions around Chandola lake, Municipal Commissioner Banchha Nidhi Pani said, “More than 2,000 residential encroachments will be removed and it will vacate more than 1.25 lakh sq m of land. More than 50 bulldozers and trucks accompanied by 500 estate department staffers along with medical staffers, fire department staffers and those from other departments are working at the scene. It has been carried out legally because water...