Crackdown on illegally parked cars at Nizamuddin roundabout

NEWDELHI: The traffic police took action against the owners of 590 vehicles parked illegally in South Delhi’s Nizamuddin on Wednesday as officials launched a crackdown to clear a crucial arterial road and the area near the railway station.

HT had reported on Tuesday how an anti-encroachment drive being carried out by a multiagency panel had failed to ease problems in the Nizamuddin area, where the problem is most acute right outside the Hazrat Nizamuddin police station. The roundabout in front connects Mathura Road and Lodhi Road, a 08.05.2018 a reporp ed aaboutou thee proproblem iin iits edition published on Tuesday.

key corridor for traffic between south Delhi and towns in the national capital region (NCR).

The operation, which began on Tuesday evening and was carried out by the special task force constituted on the orders of the Supreme Court to tackle encroachment across the national capital, also targeted eight unlicensed vends.

This week’s crackdown was the third in 10 days after the squatters returned and people resumed parking illegally. On Wednesday as well, a row of cars was back in front of the Nizamuddin police station. “We removed at least eight squatters occupying pavements and warned them not to return to avoid punitive action. We have also directed the officials to identify repeat offenders and take strong action against them,” said Chanchal Yadav, deputy commissioner of the South Delhi Municipal Corporation’s central zone.