ROHTAK, Sept. 4 -- A midnight attempt to clear heaps of accumulated garbage near the civil hospital in Bahadurgarh of Jhajjar district turned violent after a confrontation between striking sanitation workers and a police-backed administrative team, prompting registration of an FIR against around 40 protesting employees.

The incident occurred around 2 am on Tuesday night when Team-3 of a special cleanliness drive, accompanied by police and led by a duty magistrate, reached the site to remove garbage that had accumulated during the ongoing strike of sanitation workers.

According to the complaint filed by naib tehsildar Praveen Kumar, around 35-40 sanitation workers were already present at the site and were raising slogans against the stat...