India, March 28 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday asked the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to explain why they have changed their position on acquiring a 17,756 sq.m plot for a sewage treatment plant (STP) in Worli.

The court's query comes after Worli Urban Development Project LLP claimed that the authorities are no longer seeking to take over the land, even though the demolition of the existing transit camp on the land has already begun.

"This is a shocking development. Some kind of corruption has reached its finality", the developer said, adding that officials visited the site on March 24 to identify the reserved land but altered the boundaries, leaving out the transit camp area. ...