Not one street in Mumbai spared of illegal hawkers: Bombay HC to BMC, state
The court said that the BMC and state police cannot keep passing the buck or blame each other to keep streets free of illegal hawkers.
This came after the civic body submitted that while they remove unauthorised hawkers, it was the duty of the police to keep them off the footpaths. The Bombay High Court on Tuesday, while asking the BMC and state government to take strict action against the “menace” of illegal hawkers, remarked that not a single lane or area in the city is spared of the same.
After the state lawyer said that there was limited police force available to take action against unauthorised hawkers due to election duties for upcoming assembly polls, the bench questioned why it failed to take sufficient steps in the last five years.
“The problem is routine. People can’t enter shops. Despite the police being there, they continue to hawk… There is nothing left in this city… not a single area is spared, no lane is spared,” a bench of Justices Ajey S Gadkari and Kamal R Khata orally remarked while hearing suo motu plea initiated by it in February last year related to unauthorised hawkers/stalls in the city.
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