In a writ petition, 59 residents of Mohamed Tajbhai chawl, Worli, challenged the developer Oricon Properties Pvt Ltd s decision to provide them 351 sq ft carpet area.
These notices will be issued under the newly introduced section 79 (A) of the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976. The new section deals with the redevelopment of cessed buildings that are declared as dangerous by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM).
While hearing a suo motu (on its own) petition, a bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale also asked MahaRERA whether it has a developer database.
The Bombay High Court recently initiated a suo-motu (on its own) petition to develop a mechanism for situations where developers stop re-development midway, leaving tenants without home or transit rent for decades.
The Maharashtra Real Estate Regulatory Authority(MahaRERA) has come up with a list of documents to be submitted by the developers carrying out any redevelopment project.