India, March 1 -- The Bombay High Court has allowed the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) to execute Permanent Alternate Accommodation Agreements with tenants of the fraud-hit Siddharth Nagar, also known as Patra Chawl, in Goregaon East. Mhada will now hand over rehabilitation tenements to those willing to occupy the flats.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe passed the order after taking note of a structural audit conducted by Dr Abhay Bambhole, project coordinator and professor in the structural engineering department at Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI). The audit concluded that the rehabilitation buildings are structurally sound, stable and fit for habitation.

The court was...