Officials from the Revenue, GHMC and Police departments launched a demolition drive against unauthorised constructions in Jubilee Hills on Friday morning, sparking angry protests from slum-dwellers.
According to eyewitness accounts, residents from the nearby Ambedkar Nagar slum on Road No. 46 of Jubilee Hills had raised illegal structures on a two-acre government land allotted for a double bedroom housing scheme for the urban poor.
They were incidentally among the 150-plus residents of the slum who had been given allotment letters seven years ago, with a promise of construction of 2BHK units in the two-acre site abutting the slum.
