High Court relief for Bombay Dyeing

High Court relief for Bombay DyeingIn a major relief for Bombay Dyeing, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday told the Bombay High Court that the stop-work notices issued to the textile firm, which is redeveloping two mills, are premature. The HC disposed of the petition filed by Bombay Dyeing after BMC lawyer assured the court that the two notices would be withdrawn by the state-appointed monitoring committee in its next meeting on March 16.

As per Development Control Rules (DCR), when a mill is redeveloped, proportionate areas of land have to be handed over to BMC and Mhada.

Last year, the state government had written to mill land owners, asking them to hand over 30% of their open land to Mhada. The monitoring committee asked the BMC in February to issue stop-work notices to all mill land owners who had not handed over the land. However, Bombay Dyeing pointed out that as per the DCR, mill land owners were to hand over open land only if they were redeveloping the mill lands exceeding 30% of the constructible area and it had not crossed that stage yet.

Anshika Misra/ DNA-Daily News & Analysis Source: 3D Syndication

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