The BMC is not having the best time with owners of a watch showroom in Santacruz West. On Monday afternoon, officials from the H-West ward, armed with a JCB, tore down the shutters of the ground-plus-one-storey ‘World Time’ showroom, despite a January 24 order from the Dindoshi civil court directing them not to take any coercive action till March 12.

The store, owned by Nisha and Jayesh Chheda, had re-opened after renovation on Sunday. Nisha said, "We never dreamt something like this would happen. We have done nothing wrong. My father Visanji Palan Maru ran the shop for over a decade. He then handed it over to my husband and I. We will be taking further action as per our lawyer’s advice."