Slumdog child star's slum home demolished

The family members of Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire's child actor Azharuddin Ismail got a shock when civic authorities on Thursday, demolished the polythene sheet-covered roof which used to house them in Garib Nagar slum area of Mumbai. Ismail was sleeping when the civic authorities landed with the bulldozers and asked his family to vacate the house. However, the actor's family alleged that the demolition was carried out without any prior notice.