India, Sept. 28 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday slammed the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and a private developer for illegally trying to assert their right on the land of a senior citizen in Kanjur Marg. The court criticised the SRA for linking the old man's land to a neighbouring slum project and restrained the authorities from interfering with the man's property.

The man, Gerald Shivanand Warty, had constructed 13 shops and 22 living quarters on his land in 1969 and had been living peacefully at Kanjur for over 50 years. However, in August 2023, a developer, Shraddha Landmarks, who was appointed in charge of a SRA scheme on the neighboring land, demolished two of Warty's shops and dense the area claiming it was part of a prop...