Priyanka Chaturvedi detained after joining Aarey protests in Mumbai

#WATCH Shiv Sena leader Priyanka Chaturvedi was detained by the police today following protests in #AareyForest. #Mumbai pic.twitter.com/78A7tbkVp0

— ANI (@ANI) October 5, 2019

“I have not violated Section 144. I am standing here alone and not in a group. We (citizens) are requesting police to show us permission to cut trees and they are violently acting and detaining,” Chaturvedi told reporters.

She later tweeted: “I have been forcibly evicted by the cops and I wasn’t even breaking the law! The cops in the car won’t even tell me where I am being taken… this is insane.”

I have been forcibly evicted by the cops and I wasn’t even breaking the law! The cops in the car wont even tell me where I am being taken … this is insane @MumbaiPolice

— Priyanka Chaturvedi (@priyankac19) October 5, 2019

Meanwhile, the Mumbai Police has registered an FIR against as many as 40 protesters under IPC Sections 332, 353, 143 and 149, a police spokesperson told The Indian Express.

Section 144, which prohibits the assembly of four or more people, was imposed by the police this morning.

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A Sena leader claimed at least 1,000 trees were felled.

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The Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) began cutting trees late Friday night, hours after the Bombay High Court dismissed a petition challenging Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation’s Tree Authority’s decision to fell over 2,000 trees in the Aarey area of Mumbai’s Goregaon for the construction of the Metro Line 3 rake depot.