Bombay battles
More than 50 people were injured when the police opened fire and fought battles with protesters in Bombay over attempts by the authorities to evict 200,000 pavement dwellers. Trouble erupted after a demolition squad of municipal workers started breaking down flimsy shops illegally constructed in the Null Bazar area. Hundreds of shopowners threw stones and bottles and the leader of the demolition squad, his personal bodyguard, and police escorts opened fire. Bombay’s municipal corporation wants to evict the 200,000 people from the city’s pavements and shanty towns. The city, the second-biggest in India after Calcutta, has a population of 8.5 million people.—Bombay.
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Press, 4 December 1985, Page 28
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