For the last five years, residents of Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT) chawls in Tadvad, Mazgaon, had put up a tough fight against eviction. Delayed court proceedings had granted them additional reprieve. But yesterday, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and police officials put an end to the relief by evicting residents of the buildings that were declared unfit to live in by the Supreme Court in 2011.

Chawl residents took to the streets and asked the BMC officials to move them to a nearby transit camp. Pics/Bipin Kokate