India, April 6 -- The Bombay High Court has refused to entertain a batch of applications filed by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) seeking to revive long-pending appeals against orders that had quashed demolition notices issued for alleged illegal structures, observing that such cases cannot be reopened years later citing a subsequent incident like the 2017 Kamala Mills fire, which left 14 people dead and 55 injured.

A single-judge bench of Justice Jitendra Jain, during the hearing on Thursday, dismissed 26 applications filed by the civic body, which sought to challenge a 2009 order only in 2018, which is a delay of more than eight years. The corporation argued that the irregularities came to light only after the Kamala Mills...