Memorials to our fallen heroes must be maintained
Updated On: 27 November, 2025 07:57 AM IST | Mumbai | The Editorial
It deteriorated with time, with one person even stating that it is better if it had disappeared since it was painful to look at it in this state
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The original 26/11 memorial at Mahatma Phule Chowk in Kalyan, before it deteriorated. File pic/mid-day archives (right) The traffic circle where the 26/11 memorial once stood, now completely removed. Pic/Aishwarya Iyer
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As Mumbai observed the 17th anniversary of the 26/11 terror attacks, a memorial installed in Kalyan in 2009 to honour five police personnel killed in the assault has vanished from its spot.
While a senior police officer said the structure had become unsafe after a speeding vehicle crashed into it, officials from the Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation insist the junction is undergoing major redevelopment under the SATIS project and the memorial may have been removed during preliminary work an under-construction flyover.
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