You can continue to buy your favourite newspaper from the vendor at the station, but nothing else. In the wake of the September 29 Elphinstone Road stampede which claimed 23 lives, the BMC had joined hands with railway authorities to launch a massive drive to free all station premises and bridges in the city of hawkers and encroachers. Even as the crackdown on illegal vendors continues, newspaper vendors got a reprieve thanks to the intervention of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis.

Two delegations of a newspaper vendors' union met the CM over the last two days to put forth their pleas. representational pictures