Abandoned milk booths have become a sour point not just with Matunga residents, but with people across the city. A report in this paper highlighted how these defunct booths had become a safe haven for rats, drunkards and drug addicts. Last week, the body corpse of a junkie was found at one of these booths near a well-known Irani cafe in the locality.

This problem has found resonance with residents across Mumbai. There are approximately 1,800 Aarey milk booths across the city, but, most of them are shut, as the dairy was running into losses.