Frustrated by the lack of response from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to repeated complaints about hawkers occupying footpaths in their vicinity, residents of a housing society in Mahavir Nagar, Kandivli West, hired bouncers to keep the hawkers out.

Our report stated that after complaints were lodged with the civic body, hawkers vacated the area. Then, like a boomerang, they were back when BMC vehicles left the vicinity.