South Delhi sealing drive: Lajpat Nagar traders' stir takes political turn

Kejriwal mulls hunger strike as more than half the shops at Amar Colony market are forced shut; retailers start home deliveries

South Delhi’s Amar Colony market has 700-plus stores, of which 400 were sealed by the South Delhi Municipal Corporation (SDMC) on March 8. The market, famous for its wholesale and retail range of women’s wear, was one of the casualties of a sealing drive undertaken by municipal corporations across the national capital on the directions of a Supreme Court-appointed committee.

Amid the chaos and violence that flared up, there were reports of police manhandling. Some shopkeepers even alleged that women were beaten up in the process. A photojournalist with a Hindi daily accused the Delhi Police of roughing him