India, Oct. 4 -- The Bombay high court on Tuesday pulled up the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) for "continuous irregularities" in HDIL-led schemes, saying that prime commercial spaces meant for rehabilitated slum dwellers were being illegally encroached upon and misused.

The court was hearing a petition filed by Karimulla Nurulla Khan, who alleged that allotments at Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC) under an HDIL slum rehabilitation project had been taken over by private players and converted into restaurants, including Hotel BKC Mannat and Hotel Diamond.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe said such violations were not isolated, recalling how slum dwellers in another HDIL project were denied commercial premises for 1...