India, Jan. 30 -- The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Thursday seized an illegal scaffold at Shivaji Park and initiated the process of filing a first information report (FIR) against organisers of a sports event for which it was erected.

The action was initiated following complaints by the Shivaji Park Advanced Locality Management (ALM).

"We have begun criminal proceedings against the event manager. The structure has been seized, and cranes have been requisitioned to dismantle it," said Vinayak Vispute, ward officer, G North Ward.

The scaffold will be removed once the cranes arrive, Vispute said.

Members of the Shivaji Park ALM noticed the unauthorised structure being erected on January 27, without any permission from the ...