Overview

• The court ordered weekly ward-level reviews and directed the TMC commissioner to suspend municipal officers found aiding encroachments.
• Nine special teams under assistant commissioners are focusing demolition efforts in green zones and no-development areas across Thane.
• A judicial inquiry led by a principal district judge will investigate roles of municipal staff and land mafia in the large-scale unauthorised builds.
• Justices Girish Kulkarni and Arif Doctor warned that unchecked encroachments threaten public land rights and cause significant environmental damage.
• A court-commissioned inspection expanded the tally from 17 to 21 illegal buildings on Subhadra Takle’s land, prompting extended demolition orders.