Lights are being filched at the Aarey Milk Colony, leaving swathes of the area in darkness; and the result is extreme danger for the people in the area—not just from possible criminal activity but also human-animal conflict.

A report stated that Aarey Milk Colony authorities are repairing non-functional street lights on internal roads passing through forest patches, but some anti-social elements are stealing copper wires that supply power to the lamp posts and damaging the lights. Aarey Milk Colony, spread across 16 square kilometres, has 28 tribal hamlets, slum pockets and cattle farms, including a forest patch. It also has around 50,000 residents.