Murders of crows and mischiefs of rats is what the road opposite Nagrik Stores in Kadamvadi, Santacruz East, has been seeing day and night for the past two years. The gathering of the birds and rodents occurs at an open dumping spot on the road, which has been unofficially created over time.

While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) cleans up the area, residents complain that repeated efforts to seek help from the authorities to get garbage management done at the spot have gone in vain. mid-day contacted the BMC’s H East ward, under which the area in question comes, but received no response by press time.