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Mayapuri sealing drive: Clashes between security forces and local shop owners

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Clashes broke out on Saturday between locals in Delhi’s Mayapuri and police officials during a drive to seal illegal scrap factories following an NGT order.

In a video shared by ANI, security forces can be seen chasing down protesters and throwing stones and bricks at the men running on a road in the area.

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Ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) retweeted the video to slam the action against protesters to say, “Horrifying!!! General Dyer Modi’s police brutally pelting stones on the citizens in Mayapuri, Delhi.”

The tweet is in reference to General Dyer famous for the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in which the British general ordered firing on unarmed Indians gathered at a public park in Amritsar in 1919. Hundreds of peaceful protesters were killed in the firing.

According to ANI, MCD officials started to seal the polluting scrap factories on Saturday morning following the National Green Tribunal’s order to seal nearly 850 such factories.

Earlier, the National Green Tribunal had slammed the Delhi government for not taking action against illegal scrap industries in Mayapuri that are causing pollution, saying why is the chief secretary feeling helpless in protecting lives of victims.

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