Tenants of the Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT) Chawl at Chandanwadi, who have not been getting the promised rent of Rs 32,000 from the builder carrying out the redevelopment work since 2019, staged a protest at Azad Maidan on Friday. The case has been in the court for over two years while the tenants have been out of their homes since 2016.

As per the terms of agreement, the developer, Valencia & Mishal Ventures Pvt Ltd, was supposed to pay the 680 tenants a monthly rent of R32,000 along with a corpus amount of Rs 11,11,000. The developer had also promised to complete the work in three years and hand over 405 sq ft flats to each of the tenants.