India, Sept. 19 -- The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) on Friday told the Bombay High Court that the Mumbai Football Association (MFA) has "no vested, proprietary, leasehold, statutory or indefeasible right" over the Neville D'Souza football ground at Bandra Reclamation.

In an affidavit filed before the court, Mhada said that the MFA was only granted temporary and conditional permission to use the ground, which had expired in September 2024. Consequently, its plea challenging the proposed change in the reservation of the 8,450-square-metre plot was "misconceived, premature and not maintainable", as it had sought to challenge an internal administrative correspondence and preliminary consideration of a planning p...