Hyderabad Mob pelts monuments at police during drive to remove encroachments

Hyderabad : A group of people pelted monuments on police and HMDA officers during an anti-encroachment drive in Miyapur area then on Saturday, police said. One point functionary of Hyderabad Metropolitan Development Authority(HMDA) sustained injuries in the gravestone pelting, they said.

According to a elderly police functionary, scores of people had assembled on the land demanding that the government lot it to them and had indeed erected some temporary structures including hooches on it. The land was distributed to the HMDA by the government, but some people tried to worm on it after which officers along with police went there to get the land vacated, the police functionary said.

Those encroaching were told it was government land and were told to vacate it, but some among them pelted monuments on the police and HMDA officers performing in injury to one functionary, he said. The police latterly dispersed the people from the land.