Bombay HC stays construction work on Metro car shed at Kanjurmarg
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| Photo Credit: Vivek Bendre The Bombay High Court on Wednesday stayed the construction work for an integrated Metro car shed at Kanjurmarg for Metro lines 6, 4 and 14.
A Division Bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G.S. Kulkarni stayed the order passed by the Mumbai Suburban District Collector transferring 102 acres of salt pan land to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
The Bench was hearing a plea filed by the Union government challenging an order passed by the revenue minister stating that not all salt pans were owned by the State with some owned by private members.
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While the state government transferred 102 acres in Kanjurmarg to MMRDA for the Metro car shed project, the Centre opposed it on the ground that all salt pans belonged to it. December 15, 2020 1:51:50 am
Further hearings have been posted to Wednesday. (File)
The Bombay High Court on Monday asked Advocate General Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, representing the Maharashtra government, to consider whether the Mumbai Suburban District Collector can withdraw an order transferring the 102-acre Kanjurmarg land to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and inform its decision to the court on Wednesday.
Metro project: Bombay HC seeks stateâs reply on Kanjurmarg land ownership
A Division Bench of the HC heard Maha s reply to Centreâs writ petition
The Bombay High Court has sought to know from the state government whether the possession of 102 acre of Kanjurmarg land, a salt pan, which it had transferred to the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) for the Metro Car Shed Project, come to the state if the manufacturing of salt ceases.
A division bench of the HC was hearing the stateâs reply to the Centreâs writ petition that had also challenged a state revenue ministerâs order of November 2018 which held that the state was the owner of salt pans in the city.