Nearly two months after a huge fire tore through the Orchid City Centre mall at Mumbai Central, triggering a 56-hour firefighting operation, one of the longest in the city, the BMC has demolished more than 700 unauthorised shops on the premises.

While there was no loss of life due to the blaze on October 22, the fire brigade had rescued 300 people from the site. The fire had exposed the presence of too many illegal units at the shopping centre.