The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had promised to hand over the keys to houses to families residing near the Gokhale bridge reconstruction site in Andheri East before demolishing their shanties in July in order to facilitate the movement of a crane. However, the residents have been visiting the ward office, seeking accommodation, since then and are still staying on the site.

The civic body, which has promised to complete at least one part of Gokhale bridge by November, razed a few structures partially amid the monsoon to manoeuvre machinery. The work was going on smoothly until a wall of a partially demolished house collapsed after a huge machine came in contact with it recently.