Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Mar 22: Jammu West Assembly Movement (JWAM) today held a protest against Jammu Municipal Corporation (JMC) for harassing the traders on the name of anti-encroachment drive.
Scores of traders and activists of JWAM under the leadership of Sunil Dimple, president, JWAM, assembled at New Plot on Janipur road and raised slogans against JMC and traffic police.
They said that on the name of anti-encroachment drive, JMC has today harassed the innocent traders by damaging the business establishments and sign boards, besides seizing and damaging goods worth lakhs of rupees in Janipur and New Plot areas without any prior notice to the traders.
The protesting traders pleaded the High Court to save them from the starvation as the JMC is harassing them. They condemned the action of JMC demanded compensation for the traders whose property and goods have been destroyed in the drive.