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Mumbai: ‘Illegal dargah’ in Mahim razed after Raj Thackeray’s warning
Updated On: 24 March, 2023 07:33 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
With surprising alacrity, authorities demolish ‘illegal dargah’ hours after Raj mentions it, leading Uddhav Sena to allege ‘scripted scene’
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People gathered on the beach when the demolition was on. Pic/Atul Kamble
A day after Maharashtra Navnirman Sena President Raj Thackeray showed drone footage of it at his Gudhi Padwa rally and claimed an illegal dargah had come up in the sea off the Mahim coast, the state revenue department and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), demolished the structure. The BMC also demolished about 50 huts along the shoreline behind the Mahim dargah.
Mumbai Collector Rajeev Nivatkar said, “I ordered the action against an illegal structure in the sea off Mahim coast. We took action with the help of the BMC and the police.” “First phase of action was taken in the morning before 7 am. The action stopped due to high tide in the morning and resumed in the evening,” said an official. At least 100 officers and staff of BMC were present for the action. According to the police around 200 officers and personnel were deputed for security, including two companies of the state-reserve police force.
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