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‘BMC, police left me to die on the road’
Updated On: 13 July, 2021 03:45 PM IST | Mumbai | Shirish Vaktania
Eighty-three-year-old evicted from IC Colony flat without alternative accommodation, officials tell daughter to come and take her away

Celine Sequeira outside Stone Castle on Monday. Pic/Satej Shinde
Celine Sequeira, 83, whose IC Colony residence was in the middle of redevelopment-related litigation, was evicted by civic officials on Monday. With no other place to go and no alternative accommodation being provided, Sequeira was stuck on the road, vulnerable to the elements till evening when her daughter came to her aid. mid-day had reported about Sequeira’s plight when in May, she had had to live without water and power after the civic body cut off supply. It was restored after mid-day reported about her plight.
Sequeira told mid-day, “It has been raining heavily but officials did not bother about my safety. First, police assured me that they will put me in a government-run old-age home. But after throwing me out, they told the society members and others to arrange my accommodation.”
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