 Bandyopadhyay also documents how the successful mobilisation of a population group like the hawkers is marked by the virtual destruction of a pre-existing archive on the other group of 'encroachers' of the footpath space, the pavement dwellers.With the politicians dilly-dallying, the matter rolled on to the courts as public interest litigation.In 1996, Kolkata High Court asked the state government to submit a detailed report on pavement encroachment.