The Revenue Department on Monday started demolishing houses of people belonging to Scheduled Castes on the banks of Samalapuram tank in Tiruppur district after the Water Resources Department of the Public Works Department declared them as encroachments.
Officials, in the presence of police force, started the demolition works on Monday morning, around a month after the Water Resources Department served eviction notices to 135 families.
Sources with the Revenue Department said that the plan was to demolish 80 to 100 houses on Monday.
