Day after HC rap on tank deaths, BMC razes tenements
India, April 6 -- A day after the Bombay High Court took suo motu cognisance of reports in HT regarding the death of two children, aged four and five years, who fell into in an underground water tank in Maharashi Karve garden at Wadala, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) demolished the family's tenement on the footpath, leaving them defenceless against the sweltering summer heat and speeding vehicles.
"My children will not come back. But now, they have broken down our houses too," said Manoj Wagari, father of the deceased Ankush and Arjun Wagari. "All I ask is that we be given a place to stay, so I can protect the children I have left."
A photo of his deceased sons hung on the wall of what was once their home, beside a photo o...
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