India, March 29 -- A confrontation has broken out in Airoli between a private hospital developer and the Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation (NMMC) over a proposal to acquire a nearly completed multi-speciality hospital for public use.

Dr Sanjay Singh, owner of the six-storey Flamingo Multi-Speciality Hospital in Sector 12, has approached the Bombay High Court, alleging a "hostile takeover" by the civic body. The Rs.35-crore project, built on a plot purchased through a CIDCO e-auction in August 2022, is structurally complete but awaits a final Occupancy Certificate (OC).

Singh claims the project has been deliberately delayed despite compliance with required norms. "Approvals that should take days took months. I have invested my life's wor...