HC asks BMC to raze 7 floors of 8-storey Khar bldg

The Bombay High Court has ordered the demolition of seven floors of an eight-storey residential building in Khar West, Shivanjali Co-operative Housing Society, and called the construction "patently illegal and unauthorised".

- Urvi Mahajani

The court has also imposed a cost of Rs50,000 on the petitioner Rafique Kabani, who resides on the eighth floor, for "misleading the court and making selected disclosures" while acquiring interim stay on the demolition order.

The court noted that the documents clearly showed that the commencement certificate (CC) issued for the building in May 1993 was only for the construction of the first floor. However, the building constructed by AG Developers and Rao & Associates comprised a basement, ground floor and eight upper floors.