Watch how Ahmedabad authorities unleashed 50 bulldozers, 50 dumpers, and 2,000 police in a massive pre-dawn crackdown on April 29.
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00:0050 bulldozers, 50 dumpers and 2,000 police personnel.
00:09This was Ahmedabad's biggest anti-encroachment operation in over a decade.
00:20At the dawn of April 29, 2025, bulldozers rolled into the Chandola Lake area in Gujarat's Ahmedabad,
00:27clearing thousands of illegal slums in the city's largest eviction drive since 2009.
00:41The operation, spread across nearly 1 lakh square meters of government land, is not just a routine eviction.
00:48It carries multiple layers.
00:50The settlements were flagged by authorities for alleged unlawful activity and the presence of undocumented immigrants,
00:56particularly illegal Bangladeshis.
00:59Second, this demolition drive comes just days after the Pahlkam terror attack on April 22,
01:04raising questions about whether the crackdown was linked to national security concerns.
01:09And third, perhaps the most crucial, was the environmental crisis.
01:13Officials warn that illegal encroachments are suffocating Chandola Lake,
01:17putting the entire ecosystem at very high risk.
01:20The operation began with the demolition of an illegal farmhouse owned by Lala Mehmood Pathan,
01:25also known as Lallu Bihari.
01:27Pathan is accused of forging rent agreements and supplying Aadhaa cards and other identity documents to immigrants.
01:34Bagged by 20 reserve police units, AMC deployed 50 teams for the demolition.
01:54Power was cut as a safety measure.
01:55By the day's end, over 2,000 slums, mainly in Siasat Nagar and Bengali Vass, were demolished.