India, May 11 -- In a temporary relief to residents of Mamlatdarwadi in Malad West, the Bombay high court and the city civil court, in two separate cases filed by residents, have ordered a one-month stay on the road-widening works being undertaken by the BMC.

The residents went to court after the BMC began widening Road No 6 in Mamlatdarwadi from 4.5 metres to nine metres by razing their compound walls. "We got to know about the work only when a bulldozer came to raze the structure on April 30," said resident Kamlesh Deorukhkar.

Following this, affected residents of four of the 16 buildings on Road No 6 petitioned the courts in the first week of May. The high court case was filed by Gariba Hospital while the residents of Maitry Residenc...