India, Feb. 24 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday directed the city survey officer to demarcate the University of Mumbai's land at its Kalina campus and remove encroachments, if any, after the university withdrew its petition challenging a slum rehabilitation scheme on the property.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe also vacated last year's interim stay that had restrained the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and a private developer from proceeding with a rehabilitation project on around 3.7 acres earmarked for the university's expansion.

The university had approached the court claiming that slum dwellers had encroached on land allotted to it. It said the state had agreed in 1962 to provide land for expansion, ...