A city-based green activist has alleged that the suburban collector's office and Mangrove Cell have failed to follow a 2018 Bombay High Court order to create a buffer zone within 50 metres of a mangrove patch. Illegal hutments of Ganpat Patil Nagar in Dahisar (W) are eating into the mangrove cover and wetlands.

A report in this paper quoted the activist as saying that 200 hutments have been constructed in recent months. Several officials who have answered queries are passing the buck, as to who should enforce this buffer zone. Meanwhile, it is the mangroves and the wetlands that have become the casualty in this rigmarole.