{"id":327456,"date":"2020-10-11T10:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-10-11T10:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=327456"},"modified":"2020-10-11T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T10:29:21","slug":"maharashtra-govt-withdraws-cases-against-aarey-protesters-metro-car-shed-to-be-shifted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-govt-withdraws-cases-against-aarey-protesters-metro-car-shed-to-be-shifted\/","title":{"rendered":"Maharashtra Govt withdraws cases against Aarey protesters, Metro car shed to be shifted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/maharashtra-determined-to-do-more-work-than-talking-chief-minister-uddhav-thackeray\/screenshot_20191219-200620__01\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-318071\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-318071 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-300x183.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"574\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-768x468.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-1024x624.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-696x424.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-1068x651.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01-689x420.jpg 689w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/12\/Screenshot_20191219-200620__01.jpg 1080w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 574px) 100vw, 574px\" \/><\/a>Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced that the State government has withdrawn cases registered against people who were protesting against the proposed metro car shed in Aarey. He said that the government is now shifting the project from Aarey to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cWe have withdrawn cases registered against people who were protesting against the proposed metro car shed in Aarey. The proposed car shed has been shifted from Aarey to Kanjurmarg,\u201d Thackeray said while addressing the state through a webcast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">This came days after Uddhav Thackeray had directed the state Home Department to immediately start the procedure to withdraw cases registered against protesters last year for opposing the felling of trees for a proposed metro car-shed at Aarey colony.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">In October, last year, clashes broke out between the police and green activists opposing axing of trees by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Ltd (MMRCL) in Aarey Colony for construction of a metro car shed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maharashtra Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray on Sunday announced that the State government has withdrawn cases registered against people who were protesting against the proposed metro car shed in Aarey. He said that the government is now shifting the project from Aarey to Kanjurmarg in Mumbai. \u201cWe have withdrawn cases registered against people who were protesting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":318071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[11845,71],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327456"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327457,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327456\/revisions\/327457"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/318071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}