chennai a day after a greater chennai corporation employee was attacked while trying to remove encroachments on the t nagar pedestrian plaza the west mambalam police arrested a textiles shop owner on tuesday the police said that shop owner attacked the gcc staff for attempting to remove an encroaching structure he was sent to jail on tuesday abdul kareem 49 runs a shop called kalanjiyam textiles in panagal park he picked up an argument with corporation worker kannan a labourer with corporations ward 133 while the latter was removing pavement encroachments in the pedestrian plaza along with four other colleagues a few other encroachers doing business on pavements joined the quarrel that turned into a fullblown assault kannans face was bruised and bleeding the accused has a shop in that area we had given them instructions to remove all encroachments on the road but he attacked me brutally kannan told toi ramu a colleague of kannan said there were sudden instructions to remove encroachments this is why we went without police support he said assault on corporation staff who are going to remove encroachments is on a rise recently a corporation engineer in thiruvottriyur zone and another in villivakkam zone were attacked the police must send at least ten constables for support to remove encroachments but in most cases the corporation staff go alone resulting in such incidents the workers said toi shared visuals of the attack with corporation commissioner gagandeep singh bedi speaking to toi on monday bedi said he had directed the kodambakkam zonal officer to lodge a police complaint the acp of t nagar was informed and asked to arrest the person immediately he had said