Officials from the Thane Municipal Corporation (TMC) wrongly brought down an innocent man's family home in Naupada instead of demolishing the four-storey illegal structure next to it. A report in this paper cited how the TMC's 'mistake' cost a Naupada family their decades-old home. This in a city, where a home of one's own is considered the ultimate achievement, the Mumbai dream as some call it.

While TMC has termed it as an oversight, assuring the family of a new home, the owner suspects it to be a deliberate action as he had refused to give up his house and move, as other residents in the area had done, in the name of redevelopment. This is not a mistake, it is a catastrophe. How can the TMC demolish the wrong building? Before demolition, they must be aware about which building has got. They must have gone in with papers and specific instructions on which building to demolish.