India, Aug. 1 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over garbage dumping on Mumbai's roads and directed it to clear waste accumulation around prominent heritage sites within seven days, warning that ward officers would be held personally responsible if the civic body failed to act.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe passed the directions while hearing a clutch of petitions, including one filed by Kannamwar Cooperative Housing Society in Vikhroli through advocate Abhijeet P Rane over the persistent foul odour and gas emissions from the Kanjurmarg landfill.

Expressing concern over what it termed the "total mismanagement of collection of waste materials", the court o...