zirakpur fearing that the officials of zirakpur municipal council could seal their flats on thursday night hundreds of families living at imperial garden in peer muchalla spent the night outside their flatsthe residents did not sleep the entire night as they were scared that the officials of the council and police could come again and throw them out of their respective properties mc officials first came to the society at 9pm on thursday but had to leave after the residents started resisting their moveanil kumar a resident of imperial garden housing society said i used to live in a rented accommodation in sector 12a so i bought a flat here now they are trying to seal our house we are being forced to move out of our homes he saidi had to spend the night on the road with my family and neighbours we all feared that the mc officials may return and force us to leave our houses anil addedkamal kanta a house wife said i live here with my son who paid rs 38 lakh for the flat the house is registered in his name still we are being forced to leave out home said kamal kanta a house wifemy family had to spend the whole night on the road we have not eaten anything since thursday night she addedto protect their homes from the authorities as many as 150 families spent the entire thursday night at the entrance gate of the housing societythe residents said that the building collapsed due to the negligence of the council and the builders the authority is troubling the innocent residents instead of taking action against the developers and official involved we are being targeted for questioning the authority the residents said the municipal council of zirakpur had given the permission to the builders to construct the buildings now we are being harassed for the mistakes made by the administration said anil kousil resident of the imperial garden i spent all my hardearned money to buy a house here even after buying this house in a legal way i am forced to leave it said dr randhir singh