As Mumbai readies to observe the 17th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, a memorial installed in Kalyan in 2009 to honour five police personnel killed in the assault has quietly vanished from its spot. While a senior police official said the structure had become unsafe after a speeding vehicle crashed into it, officials from the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation (KDMC) insist the junction is undergoing major redevelopment under the SATIS project and the memorial may have been removed during preliminary work for Flyover A, now under construction and scheduled for completion by the New Year.

The memorial stood at Mahatma Phule Chowk, a bustling junction on the Kalyan-Murbad Road and surrounded by key institutions including the Mahatma Phule police station, Kalyan railway station, Ambedkar Garden, Rukminibai Civic Hospital, the traffic police office, tehsildar office and the Kalyan court. While the statues of Mahatma Phule and Dr BR Ambedkar still stand at the location, the 26/11 memorial, once placed at the centre of the traffic circle, is now missing.