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Mumbai: 18 days after 2 boys die in its tank, BMC razes down family hut
Updated On: 06 April, 2024 05:43 AM IST | Mumbai | Apoorva Agashe
Family alleges vendetta by civic officials as high court had slammed them for negligence in not covering the tank, which led to the children’s deaths
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Ankush and Arjun Vangri’s cousin and aunt; (right) The deceased’s paternal uncle, Kanji Kavithya, and his family whose hut was demolished on April 5. Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi
More than two weeks after two brothers, aged four and five, died after falling into a water tank at Maharshi Karve Garden in Wadala, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolished their hut along with most shanties on Road No. 16, Subhash Nagar, terming them illegal encroachments. The father of the deceased, Manoj Vangri, alleges that the civic body took revenge on them as the Bombay High Court had come down heavily on it for not covering the water tank properly.
Manoj, the father of the boys, Ankush and Arjun Vangri, is in Bharuch, Gujarat, with his wife. He told mid-day over the phone, “They had never tried to demolish these huts before my sons died. We have been staying here for two decades. We don’t know why they have razed them all of a sudden.”
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