Civic authorities carried out an anti-encroachment drive in Najafgarh and other areas in south Delhi, as bulldozers continued to roll in the city to carry out the action.

A day earlier, South Corporation had carried out a drive to remove illegal temporary structures and demolish a few brick walls in New Friends Colony. Meanwhile, a senior official said that during SDMC's anti-encroachment drive in New Friends Colony "a tree had got uprooted unintentionally". Information in this regard was given to the deputy conservator of forests via a letter dated May 10 wherein the SDMC has "assured the forest department to undertake 'compensatory afforestation of 10 number of trees' in lieu of the uprooted tree or take measures as directed by the forest department," the civic body said.