The Bombay Excessive Courtroom on Monday questioned the Brihanmumbai Municipal Company (BMC) over allegations of extending non-public advantages to industrial area by eradicating two public bogs located close to Mrinal Tai Gore flyover.
The PIL sought instructions from the Bombay Excessive Courtroom to restrain BMC from demolishing the 2 bogs.(HT_PRINT)
The general public curiosity litigation (PIL), filed by Vishwashanti Utkarsh Sanstha, sought instructions from the Bombay Excessive Courtroom to restrain BMC from demolishing the 2 bogs, claiming that it might result in vital public well being danger, environmental hazards, and social discomfort.
The BMC, on October 7, 2024, despatched a discover to Sulabh Worldwide Social Service, liable for sustaining the constructions, to demolish the 2 public bogs at Cama Property, Goregaon East.
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The petition alleged that the discover was acquired on request from MP Gajanan Kirtikar, on submission that it hindered the growth of the street, essential for alleviating visitors congestion across the space.
Advocate Rahil Ahmed Siddiqui, representing Vishwashanti Utkarsh Sanstha, submitted that the bogs had been constructed particularly to serve the native slum inhabitants and are part of the federal government’s initiative to enhance sanitation in city slums.
He contended that the demolition would disproportionately have an effect on individuals who can not simply entry non-public amenities. Moreover, he alleged that the precise objective of the demolition was to subserve the aim of a non-public petrol pump.
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“The two toilets are not coming in the alignment of road widening and is only being used as an excuse by the BMC to favour the commercial industry,” stated Siddiqui.
Alternatively, advocates Chaitanya Chavan and Oorja Dhond, representing BMC, established that the world, notably across the petrol pump, experiences vital visitors jams, attributable to close by industrial and residential developments, compromising the protection of the pedestrians.
BMC filed an affidavit on Monday, stating that the development of a brand new rest room block, positioned roughly 400m away from the topic rest room block, close to Lodha Constructing, BMC Parking, moreover Mrunal Tai Gore Flyover, is already in progress below the Slum Sanitation Programme.
After perusal of the submissions made by each events, a division bench led by chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and Justice Amit Borkar asserted the significance of the street widening mission.
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“Widening of roads is also very essential. We must take a step towards it even if it’s coming in the way of a petrol pump,” they stated.
The courtroom additionally directed the municipal authorities to discover a area near the prescribed location assemble a further everlasting rest room and set up one other momentary cabin (porta cabin) rest room.
Itemizing the case for additional listening to on January 20, 2025, the courtroom directed the BMC to file an affidavit inside three days, explaining their place concerning the objection by the petitioner.