India, Dec. 17 -- Even as the BMC, through a public notice, is seeking suggestions and objections to the modification of a BEST plot reservation at Altamount Road to a residential zone, a BEST official told HT that the C Wing of the plot, housing BEST staff quarters and a receiving substation, had been given out on a 30-year lease with the option of extension for another 30 years. BEST Sources in the know said that the wing had been taken over by Sikka Ports and Terminals Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary of Reliance Industries.

The C Wing is a smaller building of eight flats which was almost unoccupied by staff. Sources said that it shared a boundary wall with Antillia, Mukesh Ambani's residence. HT reached out to Reliance Industries for a...