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Builders booked for hacking mangroves

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Posted: Feb 11, 2008 at 2312 hrs IST

Mumbai, February 10 A day after Newsline reported the hacking of mangroves by builders to make was for one-room structures in Diva, an FIR (first information report) was registered with the Mumbra police station against two builders.

According to Thane tehsildar Nandkumar Koshit, an FIR under the Environment Act has been registered against two builders on his orders for reclaiming land, dumping debris and destructing mangroves in Diva. However, no arrest has been made so far, the police said.

On Saturday, Newsline had reported on how slumlords backed by the locals were destructing mangroves in Diva.

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