India, July 10 -- The Bombay high court has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to constitute a three-member team to identify and remove unauthorised structures and encroachments from footpaths across the city. The team, comprising an additional commissioner and two senior officers, must conduct a survey of all footpaths in the city and initiate action based on findings, the court said on Monday while hearing a petition filed by two housing societies in Powai regarding encroachment of the footpath outside their premises.

"This is not an isolated incident as many cases of this kind are reaching the court," the division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor said. "For ages, the municipal corporation would not be t...