India, Feb. 11 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday halted the construction of a transit camp for a major slum redevelopment project in Worli. The court directed the chief executive officer of the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to consider suspending two engineers for allegedly suppressing vital objections from the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) over the "illegal construction" on the land which was reserved for a sewage treatment plant.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe said that the court had serious doubts as to whether these officers had done their duties as public servants, adding that there appeared a "systematic design" to benefit the developer quite intentionally.

The case stems from a redevelo...