The BMC has taken control of a one-acre plot called Suraksha Garden on Capt. Prakash Pethe Marg, near Machimaar Nagar, opposite Lovely Homebuilding. The civic authorities took over the open space sealing its authority over the space on Monday, January 27. The move seems to have ended a 24-year-old dispute for the prime property, which was under the custody of a city charitable outfit called Suraksha Trust.

High-handed