India, Nov. 6 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday pulled up the Malegaon Municipal Corporation (MMC) for its inaction against an illegal construction in the city stating that they had 'many more important works of public nature.'

A division bench of justices G.S. Kulkarni and Aarti Sathe was hearing a petition filed by Nihal Ahmed Abdulla, 64, and nine of his family members, claiming that the MMC failed to take action against the illegal construction on a land parcel that their father had purchased in 1986. After the purchase, the plot was also granted Non-Agricultural (NA) permission under the 1986 development plan, the petitioners claimed.

In 2005, the petitioners sought permission from the civic body to construct a building on the pl...