Overview

• The Western Zone Bench directed the Maharashtra Maritime Board to dismantle the roughly 600‑metre, four‑metre‑wide walkway within two months of the judgment’s upload.
• The tribunal upheld only the anti‑sea‑erosion bund as a permissible activity under CRZ rules, allowing erosion‑control work to continue.
• Judges held the promenade was never part of sanctioned approvals and said the Board exceeded the terms of its CRZ clearance.
• The project was about 90% built at a cost near ₹10–11.8 crore, and parts of the structure and its adjoining sea wall collapsed in 2024, with activists saying sections washed away again this year.
• Petitioners Zoru Bhathena and Banda Nagraj Kumar challenged the work after MCZMA refusals and alleged a rebranding to secure SEIAA clearance, as environmentalists seek accountability and the Board says it will review the order.