Prohibitory orders lifted from Mumbai's stir-hit Aarey Colony

October 08, 2019 17:28

The prohibitory orders imposed in Aarey Colony in suburban Goregaon in view of protests over cutting of trees for a metro carshed were lifted on Tuesday, police said.

Normalcy has returned to the area where movement of people and transport has resumed.

The police had imposed prohibitory orders under Section 144 of the Criminal Procedure Code on Saturday, banning unlawful assembly in the area, following protests by activists against the felling of trees in the green zone.

The protesters were demanding the relocation of the carshed, which is a part of the Metro 3 project.

The tree cutting by Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd started hours after the Bombay high court dismissed petitions seeking forest tag for the Aarey Colony and a stay on the civic body's permission to clear the area of vegetation

to set up the depot.

Mumbai Police spokesperson Pranay Ashok said, "Today we have lifted Section 144 in Aarey Colony; now everything is normal in the area."

A local resident, Shyam Bhoir, said, "Everything is now normal in the locality but police personnel have been

deployed in large numbers at the spot where the carshed is going to be built."

"After Section 144 was lifted in the morning, people moved around without any hindrance."

-- PTI

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