Mumbai: Youths trespass Aarey dairy for clout, risk wildlife encounter

Group of youngsters force their way into dilapidated dairy facility in dead of night to shoot spooky footage for social media, film themselves rummaging through vintage photos and documents

Spurred by the desire to gain social media clout, a group of youngsters recently illegally entered Aarey Milk Colony’ s defunct Teaching Dairy, also known locally as the Dairy Science Institute, in the dead of night, and filmed themselves rummaging through documents and vintage photos, among other things. Such acts are not only unlawful but also dangerous, as many abandoned structures in Aarey are haunts of leopards and snakes.

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A video capturing the group’s actions was posted on an Instagram account, ankiittt._____, on September 4, garnering 1.8 million views. In it, youngsters could be