India, Dec. 11 -- The 117-year-old stone building that once housed the Mumbai Police crime branch at Crawford Market was demolished last week, drawing not just nostalgia for its heritage but also concerns over dust-control violations during the process. The demolition is being undertaken by the public works department (PWD), but residents said dust mitigation guidelines were poorly adhered to. Residents and shopkeepers said that during the demolition, no green cloth or tin-sheet scaffolding was used, and no water sprinklers were employed. When HT visited the site on Tuesday, a section of the site had been newly covered with a green cloth, and an AQI monitor was installed. However, debris was being transported in uncovered trucks, and rubble had been lying at the site for days. No mist guns or sprinklers, both of which are mandatory under CPCB and BMC norms, were in use. A police officer posted at the entrance said, "We work here on shifts. There has been no watering done today, and there is a lot of dust. The debris has been lying around the site. We were having breathing difficulties today." When contacted, a PWD official said, requesting anonymity, "We had visited the site one month ago, and there was some scaffolding present. Now, I will personally visit and inspect the site." Environmental activist Gyan Chaddha, present during HT's visit, said, "There are guidelines including tin sheets, water spraying, proper scaffolding, AQI and PM10 monitoring. They have not done that. If government authorities violate norms, how will they enforce them on private sites?"...