'Illegal' shops demolished
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, November 02 2014:
Around 40 shops built inside the temporary market shed of Khwairamband Keithel were demolished by the Imphal Municipal Council (IMC) with due permission of the relevant authority and the department concerned this evening.
Ironically, it is reported that the shops were built at the behest of some IMC Councillors who allegedly collected money from some women vendors with the false promise of building shops for them.
The IMC officials who came together with a police team were first blocked entry into the temporary market shed by some shopkeepers/vendors.
Nonetheless, the IMC officials somehow made their way up to the temporary market shed and demolished the illegal shops using an excavator.
According to some vendors who were present at the time of demolition, the shops were constructed after several lakhs of rupees were collected from gullible vendors with the promise of providing them shops/plots at the particular site.
Even as some other vendors refused to give any comment, many fellow vendors decried the way how some IMC Councillors victimised them.
When they contacted the Councillors who collected money from them as the demolition work razed on, there was no response.
Such deceitful conduct of the elected Councillors is highly condemnable, they added.