HC gives 4 weeks to save resort from demolition

IFS AND BUTS \ Pre-condition for Sadanand Kadam is to pay ₹25.27L to challenge MOEFCC order; razing order issued in ,23

- Urvi Mahaj

The Bombay High Court has granted liberty to Sadanand Kadam, close aide of Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Anil Parab, to approach the National Green Tribunal (NGT) within four weeks and deposit Rs25,27,500, as a pre-condition for the tribunal to hear his challenge to the order issued by Ministry of Environment and Forest and Climate Change (MOEFCC) in January 2022 directing him to demolish his Sai Resort in Dapoli.

A bench of Justices MS Sonak and Jitendra Jain, however, has clarified that in case Kadam fails to file the appeal within four weeks, accompanied by Rs25,27,500, then the authorities concerned are at liberty to implement the demolition order.