kanpur coming down heavily on shopkeepers and vendors who have encroached the roads in the city the kanpur nagar nigam knn officials carried out a massive antiencroachment drive here on thursday commencing the drive from kalyanpur the officials reached the busy panki area on thursday afternoon and razed several temporary shops that were a major cause of traffic jams in the area the antiencroachment squad also damaged some pakka shops and small makeshift structures which had been extended upto the roadthe shops and stuff kept inside them for sale were seized by the knn during the drive knn official anurag pandey roped in a heavy police force to ensure that the drive is conducted successfully those who put up a resistance were thrashed by the police pandey said we razed around 90 shops including teastalls roadside cloth and utensils shops etc in the antiencroachment drive from kalyanpur to several nearby areasthough the locals tried to protest against the drive the police made sure that the drive gets conducted successfully a local shopkeeper who had entered into a scuffle with the police in kalyanpur area was thrashed by them later the knn officials carried out the drive in localities around the usmanpur crossing