In a significant victory for open spaces in Mumbai, the Supreme Court dismissed a petition to park a fire engine inside Nepean Sea Road's Priyadarshini Park (PDP). The fire engine had been parked there since June 2017, and the fire department had also built a shed as a temporary fire station.

The BMC had filed an appeal in the apex court after the high court ordered that the fire engine be moved out of the park, along with the shed installed there. Now, it looks like the battle is finally over to stop the park from being taken over. If there is one lesson to take away from this, it is that citizens have to be constantly vigilant against forces trying to encroach on the few remaining open spaces in Mumbai. And such constant vigilance can be exhausting.