This newspaper ran an extensive report about occupants from LIC-owned buildings, spanning Matunga, Mahim and Dadar right to South Mumbai holding a protest at Azad Maidan.

Hundreds of these protesters were against what they claimed was high-handedness by the landlords’/owners’ team of inspectors. They claimed they were forced to switch to being lessees with little to no rights and exorbitant rent amounts, from the much more affordable pagdi rent.