Since 2016, Shahid Sheikh, a 50-year-old resident of Byculla's Madanpura, has been tirelessly pursuing Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials to address the overwhelming smoke emitting from a century-old bakery's chimney within his building. His family of five blames this smoke for worsening his father's tuberculosis, leading to his demise in 2018.

Sheikh, grappling with diabetes himself, narrated their three-generation stay in a ground-plus-one-floor building. In the early 2000s, a Central Bakery on the ground floor took ownership, exacerbating the smoke issue. "It was always there, but the situation escalated when the bakery installed a second fireplace," Sheikh said.