India, May 1 -- Granting no relief to state government employees who had sought ownership of the 72 flats allotted to them as government quarters in the Blue Bell building in Powai, the Bombay High Court recently said that employees could live in the flats as long as they served the state government and asked the retired employees occupying the flats to vacate them within 12 weeks.

A division bench of justices Bharati Dangre and Manjusha Deshpande said in their order dated April 16 that they found "no merit and substance" in the claim of the petitioners, who included serving and retired government servants, that the flats they occupied near the upscale Hiranandani township in Powai must be handed over to them on ownership basis.

The pet...