Hours after mid-day highlighted how an entire slum colony had sprouted in the middle of a major nullah in Bhandup East, the BMC sprang into action and demolished the shanties yesterday. The slums had allegedly come up there two years ago, right after the civic body finished widening the drain.

When mid-day had clicked this photograph of the shanties in the nullah on Sunday. On Monday, after this paper's report was published, S ward officials razed the slum settlement