India, March 20 -- Less than two weeks after officials of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) were attacked during an anti-encroachment drive in Kandivali, civic officials were once again allegedly assaulted, this time outside the Santacruz railway station, prompting the police to register an FIR on Thursday.

According to the complaint filed by Laxman Muthe, licence inspector with the H West ward, the incident occurred on March 18 when he and his team reached the Santacruz west railway station area around 7:30 am to act against unauthorised hawkers. As part of the drive, officials began seizing goods and loading them into a tempo.

Muthe alleges that a hawker, identified as Ikram Merchant, 36, Shoaib Sayyed, 24, along with two t...