Mulund’s garbage hoarders vow to take out the trash
Their neighbours in Guide Society threatened to lodge a complaint with the BMC.
The family that hoarded garbage in their Mulund apartments have promised their neighbours they will get rid of all the trash in a couple of days. The Savlas, who accumulated tonnes of junk at their ground floor apartment at Guide Society on Mulund’s Zaver Road and two other apartments in Dedhiya Niwas, have vowed to remove all the garbage in a couple of days after the residents of Guide Society threatened to approach the BMC, saying that the Savlas had created a public health hazard.
“They have told us that they will remove the garbage. If they don’t we will make a formal complaint to the BMC. All residents will sign the letter since the garbage has become a nuisance for all of us,” said Chirag Gandhi, chairperson of the Guide Society. BMC officials said they could issue a notice to the Savlas if the garbage in their flat became a public nuisance or a health hazard for the other residents. “Since it was a private flat, we could not take any action on our own. The police requested that we remove the garbage, so we deployed labour,” said a BMC T ward official.
As Maniben recovered at Mulund’s MT Agarwal Hospital, and doctors found out that she is blind and deaf, cops said the truckloads of garbage removed from the Savlas’ ground floor apartment at Guide Society came from just one room. In the heaps removed from the apartment (it filled eight trucks) were bottles, newspapers, footwear, clothes and a no-parking signboard.The police will also check some properties the family owns in Navi Mumbai, where the brothers are wholesale grain traders.
The family that hoarded garbage in their Mulund apartments have promised their neighbours they will get rid of all the trash in a couple of days. The Savlas, who accumulated tonnes of junk at their ground floor apartment at Guide Society on Mulund’s Zaver Road and two other apartments in Dedhiya Niwas, have vowed to remove all the garbage in a couple of days after the residents of Guide Society threatened to approach the BMC, saying that the Savlas had created a public health hazard.
“They have told us that they will remove the garbage. If they don’t we will make a formal complaint to the BMC. All residents will sign the letter since the garbage has become a nuisance for all of us,” said Chirag Gandhi, chairperson of the Guide Society. BMC officials said they could issue a notice to the Savlas if the garbage in their flat became a public nuisance or a health hazard for the other residents. “Since it was a private flat, we could not take any action on our own. The police requested that we remove the garbage, so we deployed labour,” said a BMC T ward official.
While it is still not clear why the Savlas-—Maniben, her sons Chunelal and Harilal, and daughters Hemlata and Jayashree -cramped their apartments with rubbish which the sisters scoured the neighbourhood for every day, Chunelal and Harilal have told cops that they believed all the stinking junk would “deter unscrupulous builders from taking over their properties.”
As Maniben recovered at Mulund’s MT Agarwal Hospital, and doctors found out that she is blind and deaf, cops said the truckloads of garbage removed from the Savlas’ ground floor apartment at Guide Society came from just one room. In the heaps removed from the apartment (it filled eight trucks) were bottles, newspapers, footwear, clothes and a no-parking signboard.The police will also check some properties the family owns in Navi Mumbai, where the brothers are wholesale grain traders.
