India, Oct. 12 -- Central Railway (CR) authorities will begin serving eviction notices this week on nearly 3,700 unauthorised slum tenements along the Kurla-Trombay railway line, in pursuance with the Bombay High Court's recent order allowing demolition of the tenements owing to safety concerns and to make way for railway infrastructure expansion.

"We will issue notices asking encroachers to vacate the premises within 30 days and take further action thereafter, in accordance with the court's directions," a CR official told Hindustan Times, requesting anonymity.

On October 7, the High Court, in response to a plea by seven affected tenement dwellers, observed that they were served with show-cause notices by the Railways in 2022 under sect...