Mumbai, April 06: The Bombay High Court today said that Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) cannot have a mall in place of a building that was handed over to it for educational purpose by a private trust.
The division bench of Justices Ranjana Desai and R G Ketkar was hearing a petition filed by Comet Media Foundation, an NGO, challenging BMC’s decision to demolish a building in south Mumbai where several NGOs have their offices and from where education is imparted to poor children.
“BMC cannot go on having malls everywhere. If a plot has been given to you (BMC) for a specific purpose then it should be used for only that. We cannot allow this,” Justice Desai said.
Counsel for NGO CMF, Rajni Iyer, said the corporation proposed to construct an electronics mall on the plot, and therefore it has declared the building to be “dilapidated and dangerous”.
-Agencies