Mira Bhayandar: The Mira-Bhayandar Municipal Corporation (MBMC) and the police removed a firecracker stall in Mira Road on Thursday night, hours after local citizens launched an agitation and to protest its location.
The stall which was erected at Hutatma Garden in the Sheetal Nagar area of Mira Road invited the ire of local citizens after it came up in a crowded locality, at a place where locals paid their respects to the supreme sacrifice of soldiers.
Notably, the parents of Major Kaustubh Prakash Rane – amongst the four brave hearts martyred while fighting terrorists on the Jammu-Kashmir border in August 2018 – were part of the protest with his mother Jyoti even beginning an indefinite hunger strike.
The incident exposed the laxity of the MBMC which allowed firecracker stalls amidst densely populated areas. Another cause of concern is that most of the stalls are stocking more firecrackers than the limit prescribed by the fire department.
