Hundreds of protesters, including women and senior citizens, are demonstrating with placards and “Aarey Bachao” banners.
Hundreds of protesters, including women and senior citizens, are demonstrating with placards and “Aarey Bachao” banners.
Mumbai Police has started giving notices to the people protesting under the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC). Construction of Metro Car Shed in Aarey Colonyan official said on July 24.
The city police have started issuing notices under Section 149 of the CrPC, which prohibits illegal gathering at a sit-in site in the western suburb of Goregaon, he said.
The official said that two protesters, Tabrez Sayyed and Jayesh Bhise, have been served notices in the last two days not to assemble illegally and not to violate the law.
Hundreds of protesters, including women and senior citizens, are demonstrating with placards and “Aarey Bachao” banners. Some people were seen with placards appealing to newly elected President Draupadi Murmu to intervene and save the forest area in the city.
The official said that the police have barricaded the venue and no one is allowed near the car shed site.
Amrita Bhattacharya, one of the protesters, said, “People come to the protest site from different parts of the city and the police are working out their names and addresses to serve them notices.”
Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Zone 12 Somnath Gharge said, “Leaders, heads of NGOs and prominent people of various groups are approaching the police for permission to protest. Hence, we have issued CrPC section to warn them. Notice has been issued under 149. To maintain law and order.”
Soon after assuming office, Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde directed the state administration to submit a proposal to build a Metro-3 car shed at Aarey Colony instead of Kanjurmarg.
The previous Uddhav Thackeray-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) government had shifted the proposed car shed site from Aarey Colony to Kanjurmarg on the grounds of environmental protection, but the issue got embroiled in a legal dispute.