India, Feb. 17 -- The Bombay High Court on Monday reiterated that providing sanitation facilities in Mumbai's slums is the statutory responsibility of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), pulling up the civic body for seeking a modification of its earlier order.

"We have made it very clear. It is the responsibility of the corporation to provide (toilets) all over Mumbai. You are as it is providing water and electricity," justice G S Kulkarni observed during the hearing.

Last week, a division bench of justices Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe had held that slum dwellers cannot be denied basic sanitation facilities and directed the BMC to provide and maintain toilets in all slum areas across the city.

On Monday, the civic body sought a ...