Up to date on: Jul 31, 2025 03:02 pm IST
The excessive courtroom directed the municipal company to take strict motion towards the violators and lodge complaints towards them
The Bombay excessive courtroom has expressed concern over the unlawful feeding of pigeons regardless of a ban, citing the well being hazard it poses, whereas directing the municipal company to take strict motion towards the violators and lodge complaints towards them.
A bench of justices Girish S Kulkarni and Arif S Physician made the observations on Wednesday because it heard petitions difficult the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC)’s demolition of kabutarkhanas (feeding factors) on July 3. The courtroom stayed the demolition and noticed that the unlawful pigeon feeding continued regardless of clear instructions from the municipal company.
The BMC has moved to shut “Kabutarkhanas” over pigeon droppings and extreme respiratory ailments associated to publicity to pigeons.
The BMC on July 24 instructed the courtroom that the pigeon droppings and the feathers triggered bronchial asthma and different ailments similar to hypersensitivity and pneumonitis. A medical report submitted to the courtroom highlighted that publicity to pigeons and their droppings can hurt lungs and trigger acute breathlessness. It stated most individuals realise this medical situation too late by the point fibrosis begins within the lungs. No drug is out there to remedy or reverse fibrosis.
