Bombay High Court ordered MMRDA to stop road-widening work on housing society plot.

On 8 September, Bombay High Court ordered MMRDA “for further stalling of road-widening work on a property owned by a housing society” in Kurla, after alleging that the government had “high-handedly” taken over 700 square metres.

The work is carried out in an extended road from Kurla to Vakola on a road between Santacruz and Chembur, and the MTNL junction, from BKC to LBS flyover in Kurla.

The Kapadia Development Coop Housing Society argued that Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority it had forcibly taken over part of its plot by its advisor Rakesh Agrawal. Admitting that road expansion is on, MMRDA counsel Akshay Shinde told BMC had acquired. However, special counsel Anil Sakhare said that the project was carried out by MMRDA and BMC haven’t acquired the plot.

The SJ Kathawalla and Riyaz Chagla HC judicial’ bench declared that if what BMC stated was true, MMRDA would not be authorised to extend the street using the petitioner’s plot.

HC ordered MMRDA to file a concise affidavit on what grounds it submitted to the court on an affidavit that BMC had bought the land which had been owned by the society and used for road-widening.

On September 15, the matter will be heard next. Property on the Mithi River. The society is not opposed to the public project, but to the way in which part of its plot was “forcibly taken” by taking advantage of the lockdown in April.