India, July 29 -- The Bombay high court has directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to shut down the Red Heart English School, a primary school in the M-East ward which was operating without necessary approvals, and demolish the school building within 10 days.

The division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor was hearing a writ petition filed by Abrahum Education Society, which runs the school. The society had challenged a demolition notice issued by the BMC on June 10, 2025.

The school, running since 2016-17 with over 400 students on its rolls, neither had any planning permission for the building from which it was functioning, nor any permission from the education department to establish the institution. Its prop...