India, Aug. 21 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday restrained the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) from taking any further steps to alter the reservation of the Neville D'Souza football ground at Bandra Reclamation from a playground to an exhibition centre.

Miffed with the civic body for approving the proposed change in reservation despite promising earlier in court that status quo would be maintained until the petition challenging the alteration was heard, a division bench of Acting Chief Justice Ravindra Ghuge and Justice Gautam Ankhad said, "We have a bigger issue where the majesty of law is at stake. If elected authorities are going to jeer at the courts, it is very bad."

As reported by HT earlier, the 8,450-square-metre pl...