India, March 4 -- More than 100 families residing on the footpath outside the Beaumont HFSI Pre-Primary School and the Podar School in Powai have moved the Bombay High Court, seeking a recall of the court's February 13 order directing Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to remove their hutments and withdraw essential services in the area.

In the interim application filed on February 26 through senior advocate Prakash Ambedkar and advocate Hitendra Gandhi, the petitioners said they were not "new encroachers", but displaced residents of Jai Bhim Nagar whose tenements had been razed by the BMC in June 2024.

The 103 families party to the interim application said they were lawful occupants of hutments outside the two schools, and claime...