On March 30, a shopkeeper named Dilip Tiwari broke a pillar that was meant to hold the Ambedkar statue citing that the site was located on a residential society’s land and constituted an encroachment. Despite several rounds of negotiations with a local social worker Ketul Kapadia, the pillar was not removed. Subsequently, Tiwari damaged the pillar, after which Kapadia allegedly circulated a video on social media, leading to hundreds of people gathering and causing damage to Tiwari’s shop.