It was an extremely pleasant surprise for the hutment-dweller when the Government officials told him that ......

• he had to vacate hutment which he had been unauthorisedly occupying
• he had been gifted with a furnished apartment in a multi-storeyed building
• he would be arrested for wrongfully encroaching on the pavement outside his dwelling
• they would not accede to his request
• they had received the orders from the court to take possession of all his belongings