Overview
- GHMC officials reported clearing 798 encroachments during Saturday’s special drive, including 340 permanent structures and 458 temporary ones across multiple zones.
- Large crowds of shopkeepers blocked demolition crews at Old City sites and near Secunderabad’s Monda Market, and reports differ on whether officials finished the work at the market stretch.
- AIMIM leaders, including MLC Mirza Rahmath Baig and former corporator Sohail Pasha Quadri, stepped in at Murgi Chowk and Rikabgunj and forced teams to stop at points.
- Police registered a case against the MLC, the former corporator and others over the Murgi Chowk clash, stating a constable was pushed and suffered a fractured right hand.
- GHMC framed the effort as acting on Telangana High Court directions and state instructions, listed zone-by-zone removals from Shamshabad to Charminar, and said the drives will continue.