MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Railway authorities in Mumbai  tore down the shanty home of another “Slumdog Millionaire”  child star yesterday, barely a week after a first child actor from the Oscar-winning film was forced into the streets.

Rubina Ali, 9, played the character of Latika as a child in  the movie, a rags-to-riches romance about a poor Indian boy  competing for love and money on a television game show.

Ali’s one-room shack was among several illegal dwellings demolished in a slum adjacent to railway tracks overlooking the posh Bandra suburb, home to many Bollywood stars in India’s  financial capital.
“They can stay with me for now,” said Moinuddin Qureshi,  Ali’s uncle, who stays in a nearby shack surrounded by open  sewers. “But they will obviously have to rebuild it, they need  a roof over their heads.”

A despondent Ali was helping her mother pick up wooden  planks and salvage household belongings from the site, a  Reuters photographer at the scene said.
Authorities said Ali’s shack was among 40 illegally built  shanties removed as apart of a demolition drive.

“These structures were on railway land, which is for the  benefit of commuters and to be used by the railways,” said C.  Nitin Kumar David, a spokesman for Western Railway.

Last week, “Slumdog” child star Azharuddin Ismail’s  tarpaulin-covered home, illegally built along a drain close to  Ali’s shack, was demolished by city authorities.
Earlier this year, there was an outcry after pictures  emerged of “Slumdog Millionaire” child stars living in squalor  despite the movie’s box-office success and eight Academy  Awards.