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11 June, 2003

Slum-dwellers attack Admn team

28 cops among 40 injured; former MP Jain detained, let off
Chandigarh Tribune- Chandigarh, India
CHANDIGARH, JUNE 10: More than 40 persons were injured, 10 of them seriously, when a mob of about 1,500 slum-dwellers � agitated over the recent anti-encroachment drive � attacked a team of the Chandigarh Administration, which was removing debris (malba), by pelting them with stones and bricks.In retaliation, the police fired gunshots in the air, besides resorting to lathicharge and busting teargas shells to disperse the mob at the Shaheed Bhagat Singh colony, south of Sector 49, here this afternoon. ...
... A former local MP, Mr Satya Pal Jain, who was present at the site, was detained and taken away to the Sector 34 police station as a preventive measure. He was later let off. About 60 persons were rounded up, but were let off. ...