India, March 17 -- The Bombay high court on Monday dismissed a petition filed by the Danda Koli Masemari Vyavasayik Sahakari Sanstha Maryadit (DKMVSSM), challenging a committee's report on the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) scheme for Koli housing being implemented on government land at Khar Danda. The report said that the SRA project was not encroaching on the fishers' traditional fish-drying land as claimed by the latter.

Last year, the DKMVSSM and another fisher welfare society, the Danda Koli Samaj, had approached the high court, challenging an order passed by the SRA in May 2022, which declared as a slum a plot of land that local fishers have used for generations to dry fish. The petitioners also sought directions for the remov...