Overview
- Roughly 80–100 shanties in the Nasirnagar slum were razed between May 28 and May 30, leaving dozens of families homeless and possessions buried under rubble.
- The Surat Municipal Corporation says its teams only went to mark a proposed road and denies ordering the demolitions while police say they provided security after receiving documents.
- A Nasirnagar resident, Hussain Aziz Shaikh, filed a Special Civil Application in the Gujarat High Court seeking a stay and questioning whether proper notice and procedure were followed.
- The SMC has ordered an internal inquiry and asked the municipal commissioner for a report; an SMC executive engineer implicated in the episode has gone on indefinite leave and about 50 protesters were detained during demonstrations.
- Local records and opposition leaders say the plot is partly private and partly municipal and point to a nearby builder’s project as a possible motive, a dispute that raises questions about redevelopment pressure legal land title and the need for urgent relief for displaced families.