India, Oct. 18 -- The Bombay High Court on Thursday ordered the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) to conduct an inquiry into a school with 150 students that is allegedly being illegally operated from a slum.

A division bench of justices AS Gadkari and Kamal Khata also imposed a Rs.5 lakh fine on the petitioner, Mumtaz H Khoja, the chairman of the school's trust, for "abuse of the process of court". It held that the petitioner had deliberately concealed facts and misled the court while seeking a review of an earlier judgment dated February 8, 2024.

The court noted that Khoja, who described herself as a senior citizen and dependent on her parents, was in fact a medical practitioner who ha...