The Jain community held a protest march on Saturday against the BMC’s action of demolishing one of their temples at Vile Parle. The protest started from the temple site and moved to the K East ward in Andheri East.

On April 16, BMC demolished the 1008 Parshvanath Digambar Jain Temple, claiming the land it stood on was reserved as a recreation ground.  This led to a public outcry and, on Saturday, thousands of members of the Jain community gathered to march from the temple to Andheri East in protest.