An Aarey Colony resident, who had illegally entered the lake at Chhota Kashmir to fish, drowned in it on Thursday evening. The body of the man, identified as Ganpat Khatare, a resident of unit number 3 in Aarey, was fished out with the help of fire brigade officials and has been sent to the BMC-run Siddharth hospital in Goregaon West for a postmortem.

Speaking to mid-day, Vijay Hirmate, senior police inspector from Aarey police station said, "A resident of Aarey Milk Colony had illegally entered the Chhota Kashmir lake for fishing, and drowned." A fire brigade official said, "Around 3.30 pm, we got a call informing us about a person having drowned in the Chhota Kashmir lake.