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Mumbai: Encroachers attack BMC demolition team in Malwani

Updated on: 19 May,2015 08:44 PM IST  | 
Tanvi Deshpande |

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolition team that was engaged in bringing down an illegal encroachment in Malwani was attacked by angry local on Tuesday

Mumbai: Encroachers attack BMC demolition team in Malwani

A Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolition team that was engaged in bringing down an illegal encroachment in Malwani was attacked by angry local on Tuesday.


According to a statement issued by the BMC, officials from the P/North ward office had gone to Malwani to demolish two illegal structures measuring 25x25 and 40x50 respectively.


Mumbai: Encroachers attack BMC demolition team in Malwani


"While carrying out a demolition action of the structure, Sandhya Amarjit Singh pelted a stone at the excavator damaging it. The driver of the excavator JCB saved himself by jumping out just in time. But the JCB has been fully damaged," said a press note issued by the BMC.

The structures were later demolished and the officials are going to file an FIR

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