Two booked for claiming demolition of shops ‘under AMC’s watch’

Later, the AMC clarified that the shops in the Nana Chiloda area of Ahmedabad were demolished by the landowner and that the civic body had no role in it.

3 min readAhmedabadAug 26, 2026 05:20 AM IST

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Police Inspector BM Kataria of Naroda police station said the police would arrest the two men and investigate why they claimed on video that the demolition had been carried out by the AMC.

After the events in Surat’s Nasirnagar weeks ago, another demolition kicked up a row in Gujarat. Two employees of a security agency were booked in a police case after they allegedly claimed that some shops were being demolished on the orders of the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

Later, the AMC clarified that the shops in the Nana Chiloda area of Ahmedabad were demolished by the landowner and that the civic body had no role in it.

Rajesh Shankar Yadav (32) and Kamal Manoj Pamnani (32) of Rajpur Security Agency were charged with impersonation of a public servant following a complaint by Narendra Babu Patel, Town Development Office (TDO) Inspector, North Zone.

Yadav and Pamnani were purportedly heard saying in a viral video that the demolition was being carried out at the behest of the AMC.

“The private land comes under the jurisdiction of Gujarat Industrial Development Corporation (GIDC) Naroda. AMC issued no demolition order. The two shops running on rent were demolished by the owner of the property,” Vishal Khanama, in-charge Deputy Municipal Commissioner (North Zone) told The Indian Express.

Patel stated in the FIR: “At 3:45 pm on August 24, I saw a video of some people demolishing shops next to a petrol pump in Nana Chiloda on the Ahmedabad -Himmatnagar highway. In the video, people were seen saying that it was being done on the orders of the AMC.”

The complainant said he and his boss, Deputy Estate Officer Vikram Katariya, inspected the site.

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“There, we found that three shop owners had demolished portions of their shops that were encroaching the road. But there were three other shops near the boundary of Naroda GIDC whose encroached portions, the accused alleged, had been demolished by the AMC,” stated the FIR.

The complainant said he called the police and filed the complaint. The security agency’s personnel were booked under BNS sections 204 (impersonating a public servant) and 54 (abetment).

Police Inspector BM Kataria of Naroda police station said the police would arrest the two men and investigate why they claimed on video that the demolition had been carried out by the AMC.

“Nana Chiloda comes under GIDC Naroda Executive Authority. So, there is no question of us issuing any demolition order. Instead, there was some dispute between the tenants and the owner. This piece of land was purchased from GIDC, but later auctioned by the Bank of Baroda after the previous owner failed to pay the amount. So the existing owner got these shops demolished. The existing owner’s private security men, during the demolition, said in the video that the AMC issued the order. AMC has filed a police case against those who misused the AMC’s name,” Khanama added.

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