The incident occurred at around 11 am when the activists of Beedhi Badi Vyaparasthara Horata Samiti returning after staging a protest at Pandeshwar against local Corporator Divakar for his unabated support to the “expoloitation of street vendors.”
When the Samiti activists led by Sunil Kumar Bajal surrounded the 'civic tiger', its squad escaped the scene by a jeep, leaving behind the black and yellow striped vehicle and the stolen goods, eye witnesses said.
However, Bunder police rushed to the spot immediately to avoid any untoward incidents.
Mr Bajal later informed that the 'civic-tiger', apart from its routine raid on street-vendors, was stealing the stored goods of the hawkers from Nellikai Raod. “The street vendors, who do not enjoy proper facility to store their fruits and vegetables, hide them in some locations during nights. The MCC's eviction squads today traced one of such location near Intercity Hotel on Nellikai road and loaded the goods to 'civic-tiger' and tried to transport it,” he said.
“When we were returning after staging a protest at Pandeshwar, we came to know about the act of 'civic-tiger' through the helpless hawkers. The police, who were present there, did nothing to stop the squad from stealing the goods,” he said.
No resolution:
Mr Bajal said the MCC has been continuing the eviction drive, despite the fact that it did not pass any resolution so far in this regard. “This is nothing but the dictatorship of a few Corporators, as a number of Corporators strongly oppose the eviction drive,” he said adding that the Samiti has decided to hold protests against the individual corporators, who support civic-tiger operation.
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