Overview

• Mumbai Police have filed the first criminal case under BNS sections 223, 270 and 271 against unidentified feeders at the Mahim kabootarkhana for violating a Bombay High Court directive.
• Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation workers erected bamboo scaffolding and draped plastic sheeting over the Dadar kabootarkhana on Sunday evening to enforce the citywide ban.
• The Bombay High Court has ordered FIRs for defiant pigeon feeders and denied interim relief after citing respiratory illnesses and infrastructure damage from pigeon droppings.
• Animal welfare groups and the Jain community held a protest march to the Gateway of India, decrying the closure as an attack on tradition and compassionate care.
• BJP MLA Mangal Prabhat Lodha has urged the civic body to establish designated feeding zones and convene stakeholder dialogue ahead of an August 7 compliance hearing.