India, July 21 -- The Bombay high court has ordered the residents occupying flats from the 17th to 34th floor of the 34-storey Willingdon View Cooperative Housing Society in South Mumbai's upscale Tardeo to vacate within two weeks, saying they were illegally occupied for over a decade. The court said that the flats pose a risk to human life, violate planning and municipal regulations due to the absence of fire safety clearance and an occupation certificate (OC).

A bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor observed that the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai (MCGM) and the housing society set a bad example of protecting the construction without an OC. "They are asserting that they be permitted to occupy such construction with imp...