Legal battle between BMC and residents of Campa Cola Compound comes to an end
The legal scuffle between the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and residents of the Campa Cola Compound in South Mumbai’s upmarket Worli area has finally come to an end, with the Supreme Court rejecting the residents’ fresh request against the eviction and demolition of illegal flats in the housing complex.
The residents of the Campa Cola Compound have conceded defeat in the case after a decade-long legal battle. Most of the residents are now packing their baggage to move out of the complex, though some of them are staying put in protest.
The BMC had proposed to demolish the 100 illegal flats of the Campa Cola Compound – spread across seven buildings – last year. The high-rise buildings were constructed between 1981 and 1989. The developers were permitted to construct only five floors, but they constructed 35 illegal floors across the seven buildings in the complex.
Though it was after a Bombay High Court order that BMC started with the demolition of the illegal constructions in the Campa Cola Compound last year, the demolition was stayed by a Bench of the apex court after considering the case on humanitarian grounds.
However, on November 19 last year, a May 31, 2014, deadline was set by the Supreme Court for the eviction of owners of unauthorised flats. In accordance with the court’s order, the BMC had asked the flat owners to hand over the keys between May 29 and June 2, so that the demolition of the building could be started.
Source – The Hindu Business Line
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