India, April 29 -- The Clean and Heritage Colaba Residents' Association (CHCRA), representing 400 residents, filed a writ petition in the Bombay high court on Monday against the Mumbai Maritime Board (MMB), the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA), the BMC's Mumbai Heritage Conservation Committee (MHCC), the traffic police and the contractor constructing the proposed 'passenger jetty and terminal facilities' in the sea. The project is approximately 280 metres from the Gateway of India, near the Radio Club end of the Colaba seafront.

The residents have objected to the scale of the proposed project, calling it excessive, and have specifically contested the MCZMA's approval of March 2, 2023, which treated the project as a '...