Between 30 April and 3 May 2023, over 1,000 houses were demolished and around 3,000 families evicted from the Bengali Colony, near the Tughlaqabad Fort, in Delhi. There was no resettlement or rehabilitation plan in place for the evictees. Activists and observers alleged that the drive, carried out by the Archaeological Survey of India, was conducted as part of preparations for the G20 summit hosted by India in September 2023.