The Bombay High Court on Tuesday directed Manoj Jarange and his supportersto vacate Azad Maidan here by 3 pm or face action. Pics/Sameer Abedi, Shadab Khan and Ritika Gondhalekar
More than 60,000 protesters and 7,000 vehicles entered the city on the first day of the Maratha quota agitation on August 29 at Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, officials said
Nearly 5,000 vehicles of protesters were parked in south Mumbai on Tuesday, as per the police
Jarange has been staging an indefinite hunger strike at Azad Maidan from August 29, demanding the Maratha community members be recognised as Kunbis, a categorisation that would enable them to avail benefits under the Other Backward Classes (OBC) quota
Instead of participating in the agitation at the venue Azad Maidan in south Mumbai, the protesters were seen occupying streets in the area and allegedly violating conditions laid down by authorities while granting permission for the stir
Taking cognisance of the situation, all entry points leading to Mumbai, including Vashi, Airoli, Thane and Dahisar, have been blocked for the vehicles of Maratha protesters, an official told the PTI
Mumbai Police had earlier in the day rejected an application by the agitators to extend their permission to continue the protest. The activists said they would challenge the decision during the court proceedings
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