On August 20, Altaf Khan's tea stall was cleared as part of an anti-encroachment drive. A week later, officials also demolished the house where his mother lives because Khan apparently slapped a BMC official.
A middle-aged couple was found to have died by suicide in their rented residence in Nagpur on Sunday evening. The couple left behind a suicide note blaming their landlady for sustained harassment over three and a half years, including forcing them to pay her water and electricity bills along with their own.