The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a fresh plea on Tuesday against the order to demolish the illegally constructed Campa Cola residential building in Mumbai. Senior counsel Vikas Singh, appearing for the Campa Cola Residents’ Association, told a Vacation Bench of J.S. Khehar and C. Nagappan, which was initially reluctant to hear the application, that the demolition would lead to the eviction of 40 families.The Association, in its application, has sought a direction to the Maharashtra government and the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai not to demolish the illegal flats till the present writ petition was disposed of.
The Association said it had come across certain facts under the Right to Information Act which required a fresh hearing. It added that the State and the civic body, in 1985 and 1986, had decided to regularise the illegal construction.
The apex court had, on November 19, 2013, given flat owners time till May 31 this year to vacate their houses as no specific proposal could be worked out to provide them space in the compound for construction of a new building.
