We have no money, how do we move somewhere else and that too amid a pandemic?” ask residents of Bandra Slaughter House slums after holding a demonstration outside Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray's residence Matoshree on Tuesday. They were protesting against the forced eviction by the BMC, which said the locals need to leave for their own safety.

H West ward officials, with heavy police bandobast, went to the area in the morning and cut off water and electricity connection. “The slums have dilapidated buildings that fall under C1 category, and need immediate evacuation. We have been serving them notices since past one year and have also given allotment letters of temporary transit homes, but no one is moving. And that is why the action was initiated,” said Vinayak Vispute, assistant commissioner, H West ward.