Decrepit toilets, which do not have doors, leave alone water or electricity, in a Vasai chawl are forcing people to defecate in the open. The women can use the toilets, constructed by the Vasai Virar City Municipal Corporation a decade ago, only before dawn or after sunset.

Women of the sprawling complex claimed that there has been no maintenance on these toilets. The horror story goes further to drug addicts frequenting the spot, and the residents claim it is these miscreants who have thrown the doors in the gutters.