Mumbai, May 23 (IANS) The Western Railway (WR) administration on Saturday successfully completed a major anti-encroachment drive near the Bandra railway station, completely flattening all illegal structures and shanties in the Garib Nagar area of Mumbai’s Bandra East. Following the five-day intensive operation, debris clearance work commenced on Saturday.According to the Railway officials, while unauthorised structures were completely razed, the ground floors of around 100 authorised houses in t…
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Mumbai, May 22 (IANS) The large-scale encroachment drive undertaken by Western Railway in Bandra’s Garib Nagar slum area to clear the government land from illegal occupation is continuing in full steam even as the city police intensifies their drive to identify, track and nab the violent protesters who pelted stones to derail the process.Western Railway, sharing an update about the demolition drive on its X handle, informed that the operation to reclaim the illegally occupied land for future r…
Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) The anti-encroachment demolition drive near Bandra East railway station resumed on Thursday with heavy security deployment, a day after tensions flared during the operation following a stone-pelting and lathi-charge incident linked to the demolition of a religious structure.Officials said nearly 85 per cent of the overall demolition work at the site has now been completed as authorities continue action against illegal encroachments in the area.According to officials associa…
Mumbai, May 21 (IANS) Tension prevailed in Mumbai’s Bandra East area after an anti-encroachment demolition drive allegedly turned violent, leading to clashes, stone-pelting and injuries to several police personnel deployed at the site, officials said on Thursday.Following the violence that erupted on Wednesday, the Mumbai Police registered an FIR at Nirmal Nagar Police Station against 10 identified accused people and several others under multiple provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS)…