BMC's night shelter in Bandra West for the homeless. Pics/ Pradeep Dhivar

While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) claimed that it has eight night shelters for the homeless, a visit by members of a Supreme Court-appointed committee to verify the same exposed the civic body's lie. The BMC, which is expectedly crying space crunch, now has 15 days to tell the SC how exactly it intends to remedy the situation.