The “Save Aarey” Movement has been fighting its fight for 5 years now. The impact of this movement has been large enough to include people from all walks of life in Mumbai who came together to save the “city’s lungs”. With protests, petitions before the Court and the actions of BMC and its agencies being the key factors of this movement, let’s take a bird’s eye view of what conspired between the protests and the culminating Bombay High Court judgment which has come as a rude shock to the residents of Mumbai.