India, Oct. 1 -- The Bombay High court on Tuesday allowed a handful of slum dwellers from Siddharth Nagar in Chembur to challenge the appointment of Ruparel Buildcon to undertake a slum rehabilitation project on a 66,000-square-meter state government plot of land before the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) or some other appropriate statutory forum.

The division bench of Justice Girish Kulkarni and Justice Dr Neela Gokhale also directed that the matter be referred to the state government if a new developer needed to be appointed in case the SRA held it necessary to remove Ruparel Buildcon. It also ordered the SRA CEO to ensure that no developer was appointed by any of the 33 societies of slum dwelle...