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New Delhi: The traders in Delhi tried everything they could to get the Supreme Court and the MCD to postpone the sealing drive, from destroying buses to shutting shop and blocking traffic.

But on Wednesday, the MCD followed Supreme Court orders and resumed the sealing drive. Commercial establishments at Ashram Chowk in the central zone and Africa Avenue in the South Zone were hit on Day one of the sealing drive.

The heavy deployment of police personnel across the Capital sent out a strong message that the authorities will brook no resistance.

With most of their colleagues behind bars, the fight seems to have come out of the hands of the traders as they are slowly waking up to the inevitable reality of sealing.

Some of the biggest offices to face the ire of the MCD were Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) and the CRY offices in Africa Avenue.

RK Sanghi's Pulse Impulse, one of the oldest health clinics in the Capital, also got MCD's stamp of disapproval.

"There has been no sealing action against this property by the MCD in the past. So, how can they do this now," RK Sanghi, owner of Pulse Impulse, asks.

Meanwhile, acting on a PIL, the Delhi High Court issued a notice to the Centre and Delhi Development Authority on Wednesday asking DDA to use vacant land in its possession to rehabilitate traders affected by the sealing drive.

(With Neha Seth in New Delhi)