India, July 26 -- The Bombay High Court on Friday set up a two-member committee comprising Justice (Retd) GS Patel and senior advocate Naushad Engineer to suggest measures that would introduce transparency and accountability into the functioning of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). The order was delivered after the court found glaring illegalities relating to criminal prosecution for illegally occupying tenements.

A division-bench of Justice GS Kulkarni and Justice Arif Doctor passed the order on a petition filed by a Mumbai resident, who alleged that shops and residential units had been occupied in an under-construction building in Dadar West, without obtaining occupancy certificates.

Samartha Krupa, a cessed building at th...