Repair work that is underway at a heritage building - Sugra Manzil - in Colaba has led to infighting between its tenants when a senior citizen, Basant Misra, dug up the newly paved portion of the common area saying he would not allow the area to be repaired. The men he had called to take out the new tiles on April 25 afternoon were, however, given a warning by the cops.

Tenants claimed that the common space was riddled with rat holes which is why the work was being done in the century-old Sugra Manzil, located a few metres from the Taj hotel. After Misra stopped the work, some tenants including Divya Thakur, Khozem Topiwala, Mubaraka Chamdawala and her husband Malik registered a complaint with the Colaba police station. "As it was a civil dispute, the cops asked us to sit together with Misra and resolve the issue. The cops, however, called the men who trespassed into our building to uproot the tiles, and scolded them," said one of the tenants who visited the police station.