After the Supreme Court directed the Central Railway and the Western Railway to remove oversized and unauthorised hoardings, the authorities have identified 23 hoardings across the city and have begun the process of demolishing them. On July 10, a bench headed by Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia and Justice Ahsanuddin Amanullah of the Supreme Court had passed an order in a plea moved by the BMC claiming that the railway authorities had not abided by the notices issued on May 15. The court had directed the railway authorities that the BMC’s notices should be followed in “letter and spirit” and had scheduled the next hearing for four weeks later.

The same hoarding displaying an ad 

Subsequently, the railway authorities took action, identified 23 hoardings across the city, and began the process of demolishing them. “We informed the advertisers that the hoardings are oversized and told them to remove them,” said the chief public relations officer of Western Railway. According to Western Railway, they have identified five hoardings across Goregaon, Bandra, and Charni Road. “All these hoardings were oversized, and we are removing them,” the CPRO added.