Updated On: 06 February, 2021 08:02 AM IST | Mumbai | Anurag Kamble
Branches of 20 to 30-year-old trees were brutally chopped off to make billboards more visible near Girgaon chowpatty and Mahalaxmi

A chopped tree at Chagan Mitha petrol pump at Mahalaxmi to nake the billboard visible and (below) hacked off branches of a tree kept at Bandstand signal in Girgaon chowpatty. Pics/Ashish Raje
Three instances of trees being chopped in a single night for a better view of billboards have been reported from South Mumbai. FIRs have been registered against unknown people. According to the complaints submitted to the police, the men who chopped the trees were dressed like BMC workers. Police are yet to make an arrest.