On Wednesday, the Bombay higher court stayed an order passed by Mumbai suburban district collector allotting salt pan land of 102 acres in Kanjurmarg location of the economic capital for an integrated Metro vehicle shed’s building. Besides, the authorities have been restrained from carrying out any building work at the mentioned land by a division bench comprising of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice G S Kulkarni. The central government and the Maharashtra state government are locked in a tussle more than the land ownership earmarked by the state for creating the metro vehicle shed which was planned at Aarey Colony earlier, which is a green belt in suburban Goregaon, according to a PTI report.
A petition has been filed by the Union government in the higher court difficult the order passed by the collector on 1 October 2020, allotting the land for vehicle shed’s building, and mentioned the land belongs to the central government’s salt division. The court mentioned it can’t permit the collector’s order to continue. It additional stated that the court is admitting the petition as properly as granting relief as sought by the petitioner in prayer clauses ‘h’ and ‘I’.
The Centre had sought the court to remain operation of the collectors order, transferring possession of land of 102 acres to MMRDA, as per prayer clause ‘h’. The Centre had sought an order from the court, in the prayer clause ‘I’, restraining the authority from carrying out any building work on the mentioned land. On Monday, the High Court recommended the Maharashtra government to look at withdrawing the order passed by the collector.
The state was prepared for order withdrawal and to give a fresh hearing to the Union government, but the work of building would continue at the land, advocate basic Ashutosh Kumbhakoni told the High Court on Wednesday. He additional told the court that at present, soil testing work was on at the website. However, the higher court noted that when it was of the prima facie view that the order of the collector transferring possession can’t continue, then how can it permit the work of building to go on at the mentioned land.
On Wednesday, the court granted remain as properly as admitted the petition for final hearing in the month of February. The plea has been opposed by the MVA government and it mentioned the land that has been allotted for the Metro vehicle shed to the MMRDA is owned by the Maharashtra state government. In its plea, the Centre claimed the complete salt pan land, such as the 102 acres allotted to the MMRDA, belongs to the salt division of the central government.
Recently, the present MVA government took the choice to shift the metro vehicle shed from Aarey to Kanjurmarg. Instead of creating separate vehicle sheds for diverse metro lines, the state government decided to establish an integrated vehicle shed for metro lines 3, 4, 4A, 6.