Mumbai, December 03: The city’s water woes today claimed a life and left several injured when police baton charged demonstrators protesting the cut in water supply to residential areas in front of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) headquarters.
Vishal Dholakia (43), one among the few hundred protesters, allegedly died of head injuries at the G T Hospital in south Mumbai, close to the police headquarters, though the authorities attributed his death to heart attack.
Additional Commissioner of Police R K Padmanabhan said Dholakia apparently had some medical condition and died of heart attack.
Superintendent of G T Hospital A V Kulkarni said Dholakia did not have any injury marks on his body.
–PTI