Days after the authorities brought the riot police down on Vasai just to keep locals off the east-west bridge, the local police have now brought charges of ‘unlawful assembly’ on 15 people for throwing the bridge open last week. No arrests have been made, but locals have taken strong objection to the FIR, saying that the police should instead charge the officials who delayed the construction and inauguration of the flyover for so long, which eventually pushed the public to take matters into their own hands on Wednesday.

MMRDA ostensibly put labourers to work installing view-cutters along the Vasai flyover yesterday, a day after mid-day pointed out that there were no signs of work being carried out there. Pics/Hanif Patel