Send notice to trust to recover damages due to encroachment of land in Navi Mumbai, high court tells MIDC
Hindustan TimesIn perhaps what could be the first attempt to recover damages from an encroacher for unauthorised use of government land, the Bombay high court on Friday directed the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation to issue a notice to Bavkhaleshwar Mandir Trust in Navi Mumbai to recover the damages for encroaching upon its land. The temple trust had, in 2007, encroached upon 1.32 lakh square metres of MIDC land at Pawne in Navi Mumbai and developed a temple complex. The division bench of chief justice Pradeep Nandrajog and justice Bharati Dangre accepted Thakur’s contention that an inquiry was needed to fix responsibility of the lapse on the part of the MIDC officials concerned, but it also felt that the damages were required to be recovered from the encroacher for unauthorised use of the government land for about 11 years. Apart from the three temples, the encroachments also included a coconut plantation on 54,000 sqm land, an artificial pond spread over 9,600 sqm, asphalt roads covering about 18,000 sqm on MIDC land and a sprawling bungalow on 5,600 sqm on another land, belonging to the City and Industrial Development Corporation.
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