India, June 17 -- The Maharashtra government has appointed renowned architect Hafeez Contractor to design the new Bombay high court complex at Bandra East, after the previous model designed by the state public works department (PWD) was disapproved by both the judiciary and the state bureaucracy.

The state government then held a competition to pick architects for the project, after which Contractor was selected. Confirming this, PWD's chief architect Chetan Akre said, "We have selected Hafeez contractor to design the high court."

Contractor, 74, is an award-winning architect behind several skyscrapers in India, including The Imperial twin towers in Mumbai. "The final design [of the high court complex] is being finalised," he told HT.

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