Mumbai Metro: Bombay High Court Dismisses Plea Against Line 4; Says No Legal Error In Alignment, Acquisition Proceedings
Live LawThe Bombay High Court on Thursday rejected a challenge to alignment of Mumbai's Metro Line 4 observing that the petitioners attempted to stall and delay the project of public importance under the garb of enforcing their private rights. A division bench of acting Chief Justice SV Gangapurwala and Justice Sandeep V Marne stated that the petitioners raised baseless arguments and made MMRDA justify each action regarding implementation of metro project unnecessarily – “Not only most of the contentions raised by Petitioners are totally baseless, they have unnecessarily made MMRDA and State Government to justify each and every action relating to execution of the project right from legality of authority to MMRDA to implement the project. The court said that Regulation 55 of the DCPR 2034 provides for automatic amendment of Development Plan upon any modification of metro line alignment by the appropriate authority and sanctioned by the government. The alignment of ML4 stands included and the petitioners land stands reserved in the Development Plan 2034, the court held.
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