Just days after Slumdog Millionaire child star Azharuddin lost his home in the BMC demolition drive, his co-star Rubina Ali found herself homeless as Railway authorities razed her shanty.
Rubina, 9, who played the young Latika in the multiple Oscar-winning film, and her family members were on the streets after their home in the Garib Nagar slum in Bandra was pulled down.
Ali's one-room shack was among several illegal dwellings demolished in a slum adjacent to railway tracks overlooking the posh Bandra suburb.
''I had gone to the market and when I came back they had razed my house. I don’t know where I will we sleep,'' Rubina said.
Her uncle, Mohiddin, who lives in the same slum, alleged that her father Rafiq Qureshi was beaten up by the police conducting the demolition drive.
Authorities said such clearance drives are routinely carried out in order to protect the land from encroachments.
The authorites said they were unaware about the Slumdog Millionaire child star's house being among them.
A despondent Ali was helping her mother pick up wooden planks and salvage household belongings from the site.
Authorities said Ali's shack was among 40 illegally built shanties removed as apart of a demolition drive.
Following the film's success at the Oscars, some government officials had said the child actors could receive low cost houses, a proposal which subsequently died a silent death.
Rubina's family was also mired in a recent controversy where a UK tabloid alleged that Rubina's father Rafiq had attempted to put her up for adoption. Following a complaint by
