India, April 12 -- The Bombay High Court has asked Sahara Hospitality Limited (SHL), that runs Hotel Sahara Star near the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport (CSMIA) to deposit Rs.23.89 cr in the court for restoration of the hotel's water supply. The order comes amid an ongoing dispute over property tax between the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and SHL.

In an interim order passed on Wednesday, a division bench of chief justice Shree Chandrashekhar and justice Aarti Sathe said that SHL's water connection would be restored as soon as the company's director files an undertaking stating that Rs.23.89 crore would be deposited with the high court's registry in four weeks.

SHL's counsel told the court that the BMC had ...