Tempers matched the soaring after-rain humidity on Sunday morning at Shivaji Park. The local police stopped a Save Aarey protest planned by local activists as there were "no permissions". The organisers had said this was to be a unique "sleeping protest" to save Aarey. This meant protesters would sleep along the circumference of the iconic Dadar space, making a statement to save Aarey's trees.

A bunch of approximately 40 protestors had gathered near the Nana-Nani Park (aaji-aajoba udyan) at Shivaji Park. They came with banners and a few posters to shore up their sleep protest and to draw attention to the "unnecessary felling of more than 2,000 trees to make way for a Metro car shed inside Aarey". Their protest was scuttled even before it could take off. Police arrived at the scene, asking for "permissions" for the protest. None were available.