India, Aug. 29 -- The Bombay High Court (HC) has quashed retrospective rent hikes imposed by the Mumbai Port Authority (MbPA) on 154 residential and commercial tenants between Colaba and Sewri, ruling that the rent rates under a compromise proposal upheld by the Supreme Court (SC) in 2004 in the Jamshed Hormusji Wadia case would continue to apply to the tenants until March 31, 2024.

A division bench of Manjusha Deshpande and Bharati Dangre on Wednesday set aside a series of gazette notifications through which the MbPA had sought to impose revised Scale of Rates (SOR) from October 2012 till September 2022, holding that the port authority could not unilaterally adopt rates that were contrary to the compromise proposal upheld by the SC. The...