India, Feb. 1 -- The Bombay high court on Friday directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to file affidavits regarding encroachment on a 6,000-square metre plot, reserved for a playground, next to St Elias High School in Khar West.

A bench comprising chief justice Alok Aradhe and justice Bharati Dangre was hearing a public interest litigation by three Khar residents - Dileep Saptarshi, Robert Wiesinger and Sunil Bhatia - who claimed that the SRA had allowed a developer commence construction on the plot despite a 1995 restraining order from the supreme court.

Saptarshi and Wiesinger had first moved the high court in 1988, seeking directions to the BMC to implement the 1966 developm...