Aarey Is Known As 'Chota Kashmir', Now It Has Become Like One: Netizens After Section 144 Imposition

Protests are erupting both online and offline after the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) began cutting of hundreds of trees in the Aarey Colony where a proposed car shed is to be set up.

The MMRCL began the cutting of trees on Friday night to clear the land.

But the action has not gone down well with the environmentalists who had been campaigning to save the greenery, often referred to as the lungs of Mumbai.

As the protests began gaining momentum there was a massive deployment of police to blockade the area and Section 144 has been imposed there.

Some 2600 trees in Aarey Colony as set to be cut down to clear land for the construction of a car shed as part of the Mumbai Metro project.?