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  Metros   Mumbai  01 Feb 2017  Bombay High Court extends relief to Linking Road stalls

Bombay High Court extends relief to Linking Road stalls

THE ASIAN AGE.
Published : Feb 1, 2017, 4:34 am IST
Updated : Feb 1, 2017, 6:04 am IST

BMC is expected to file its inspection report in court by second week of February.

The court has asked the civic bdy to conduct individual inspection of stalls for violation of licence rules before initiating action against them.
 The court has asked the civic bdy to conduct individual inspection of stalls for violation of licence rules before initiating action against them.

Mumbai: The Bombay high court has asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to refrain from taking action against 16 stalls at Linking Road, Bandra, which is a shopping hub, and extended interim relief it had previously granted to 167 stalls.

The court has asked the civic bdy to conduct individual inspection of stalls for violation of licence rules before initiating action against them. The 16 stalls in question were not part of the original petition filed by the Linking Road Stall Owners Welfare Association (LRSOWA) which is why the BMC targeted them with a proposed demolition drive on Monday.

A member of LRSOWA, Faisal Qureshi, said that after the court restrained BMC from taking action against the 167 licensed stalls earlier in January, the civic body decided to target the 16 stalls that were not part of the earlier list. “Even though the said stalls are licensed stalls, BMC broke them on Monday. We had approached Khar police station to lodge a complaint against arbitrary action but after the police refused to take our complaint, we were left with no option but to approach the court,” Mr Qureshi said.

Another stall owner said that as a new petition had been filed to include the 16 stalls that were left out in the earlier petition and the same was to come up for hearing on Tuesday, BMC carried out demolitions on Monday.

A division bench of Justice S.S. Kemkar and Justice P.D. Naik was hearing the petition filed by LRSOWA that represented 16 stalls that had not been included earlier. After being informed by Advocate Induprasad Tripathi, who represented the association, that the said stalls were also licensed and legal, the court directed BMC to apply the same interim relief to the 16 stalls as well. BMC is expected to file its inspection report in court by second week of February.

Tags: bombay high court, bmc, lrsowa
Location: India, Maharashtra, Mumbai (Bombay)