India, April 19 -- The Bombay High Court on Saturday dismissed a petition seeking to exclude over 200,000 sq m of land in Dharavi Koliwada from the Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP), holding that it was too late to intervene.

"It is too late in the day," said a division bench of justices Makarand Karnik and SM Modak, while rejecting the petition filed by the Dharavi Koli Jamat Trust, an organisation that represents the fishing community in Dharavi.

The petition said that, according to the fisheries and city survey departments, a 200,830 sq m land parcel forms part of Dharavi Koliwada-one of Mumbai's seven original fishing villages-and should therefore be excluded from the redevelopment project.

The trust, through advocates Ravi Gadag...