U.P. govt. uses bulldozer to clear encroachment done by Shrikant Tyagi

On Monday morning, Uttar Pradesh government officials used a bulldozer to remove encroachment done by absconding politician Shrikant Tyagi outside his Noida residence.

A local official told PTI that the action was carried out around 9 am by the Noida Authority to remove illegal structures outside Tyagi's ground floor apartment in Grand Omaxe society in the city's Sector 93 B.

Tyagi had encroached a portion of the common area of the society in front of his flat by building temporary structures using pillars and tiles.

He had planted trees in a park in front of his residence.

Tyagi, who claims to be a BJP politician, was arrested by the police for assaulting and abusing a woman co-resident of Grand Omaxe who had objected to him planting trees in the common area of the society.

Tyagi had claimed that he was well within his rights to do so.

Police personnel in large numbers were deployed to the society last night, even as senior officers interacted with Grand Omaxe residents.

They praised the government's 'bulldozer' move but also sought the early arrest of Tyagi, even though some of them were distributing sweets to each other on the occasion.

We had been raising the issue of encroachment for a long time and finally it happened. "We thank the Noida Authority and the Uttar Pradesh government for it," an elderly resident of the society told reporters.

There are over 1,000 families residing in the society.