On the morning of May 12, two bulldozers rolled into Southeast Delhi’s Madanpur Khadar. They had come to demolish three buildings, all under construction.
The city has been witnessing such scenes since April 20, when the municipal authorities launched a controversial anti-encroachment drive in the wake of communal violence in Jahangirpuri. The drive has drawn condemnation, even protests, for disproportionately targeting properties of the minority Muslims, most of them poor.
