Mumbai, April 8 Around 1,400 unauthorized shacks were demolished in the Mankhurd area of Mumbai on Wednesday in a joint operation by the city's civic body and the administration, freeing a government plot at the former Bombay Soap Factory site, officials said.
The operation was carried out by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation and the Mumbai Suburban Collector's office.
The BMC stated that the eviction was carried out along the Ghatkopar-Mankhurd Link Road under the provisions of Section 50 of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code, 1966, following directions from the Additional Collector (Encroachment Removal), eastern suburbs.
The squatters had encroached upon approximately 22 acres of land owned by the government along the key link road in Mankhurd.
The operation was undertaken by the BMC's M-East ward. Civic teams, including officials from the building and factory department, and police personnel, were deployed for the exercise, the release said.
It added that around 200 laborers and heavy machinery, including three Poclain machines, seven JCBs, ten dumpers, and two drone cameras, were deployed.