In a video shared by the news agency, security forces can be seen chasing down agitators who were protesting against the action, and throwing stones at them. The locals also indulged in stone pelting.
Sharing a clip from the video, the ruling Aam Aadmi slammed the action of forces against the protesters and called Prime Minister Narendra Modi "General Dyer". "Horrifying!!! General Dyer Modi's police brutally pelting stones on the citizens in Mayapuri, Delhi," the AAP tweeted.
Reacting to the video, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal said the business class has always backed the BJP with its money and votes but the party doesn't want their support.
"Beating up one's own traders like this is shameful. They have always backed the BJP with their money and support but in return, the party sealed their shops and lathi-charged them. The BJP is making its intention clear that it doesn't want their support," Kejriwal tweeted.
The NGT had on Friday slammed the Delhi government for not taking action against illegal scrap industries in Mayapuri that are causing pollution, saying why is the chief secretary feeling helpless in protecting lives of victims.
A bench headed by NGT Chairperson Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel directed the chief secretary and the Chairman and Member Secretary, Delhi Pollution Control Committee to respond why they should not be jailed and be prosecuted if illegal activities are not stopped and people remain suffering on account of illegal activities.
The green panel also ordered the officials to appear before it on May 3 with compliance report.
The NGT said that there is acknowledged failure to comply with the orders of the tribunal by the Delhi government and the chief secretary appears to have merely expressed helplessness in taking action.
"We fail to understand why guilty are not being prosecuted in spite of more than five years of order of this Tribunal and in spite of undertaking given by the Chief Secretary before the Tribunal. Why electricity is being supplied for illegal polluting activities. Why no officer has been dismissed nor any polluter arrested or punished.
"Polluting activity causing deaths and diseases are no less than murder or attempt to murder. Pollution laws confer vast powers on DPCC which is not being exercised for reasons difficult to understand. Why is the Chief Secretary feeling helpless in protecting lives of victims, even though armed with all powers under various laws," the tribunal said.
The green panel said that no meaningful steps have been taken in last four years for compliance of the orders and even the performance guarantee, as required, has not been furnished and responsibility shifted.