Overview

• The two-member panel, assisted by four civic officers, must recommend measures for transparency and identify officials responsible for avoidable BMC-linked litigation.
• On July 17 the court ordered vacate notices for 12 of 14 commercial shops in the stalled Dadar West redevelopment that lacked occupancy certificates.
• The bench condemned municipal officers’ conduct as “an open racket” that allowed illegal occupation and noted previous criminal prosecutions collapsed for lack of evidence.
• Over 110 residential tenants have been kept from their entitled homes for more than 15 years in the unfinished project, raising alarms about collapse or fire risks.
• The High Court will reconvene on August 1 to assess the committee’s report and push broader governance reforms in the city’s richest civic body.