Mulund residents have been barking up the right tree(s) all monsoon, but the BMC has allegedly been nothing but wooden in its ignorance. Meanwhile, a weak tree has claimed the life of an autorickshaw driver and injured the passenger. After the incident, the civic body has claimed it had trimmed the trees at the start of the monsoon.

Locals had been complaining to BMC to hack the tree on N S Road that fell at 1.08 am on Monday. The tree ended up killing autorickshaw driver Ashok Shingre and injured his passenger, Rajesh Bhandari. This is the fourth such death this monsoon. Bhandari is receiving treatment at the Veer Savarkar Hospital, where his condition is said to be stable.