A group of villagers in Gujarat's Dahod district briefly stopped the construction work along a stretch of the Delhi-Mumbai Expressway on Tuesday over their long-pending demands like compensation for crop losses and alternate roads to reach other villages.

Following the protest in the afternoon at the expressway stretch near Zalod town in the tribal-dominated district, sub-divisional magistrate (SDM) AK Bhatia and other officials rushed to the spot and assured villagers to look into their demands and address them.