When civic officials came armed with an empty lorry to seize goods being sold by street vendors on Church Street on Wednesday, most of the vendors ran to hide their goods. But the officials seized the goods of three vendors and dumped them in the lorry and were about to leave like they did many times before. But Wednesday was different. The street vendors staged an impromptu protest.
Swami Gowda, who sold caps and socks on the footpath, said that the civic body, under pressure from shopkeepers and residents of Church Street, had been trying to evict them since November, 2024.
