India, July 1 -- The Bombay high court last week stayed the Maharashtra government's allotment of a 3,000-square-metre plot at Backbay Reclamation, which was reserved for parking lots, to a nonprofit for the construction of a school.

A division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor passed the order on a petition filed by the Cuffe Parade Residents Association (CPRA), claiming that the allotment was illegal and contrary to several legal requirements.

CPRA, through its honorary secretary Preeti Bedi, had challenged a September 2024 government resolution (GR) allotting the plot, which was reserved for parking lots in Mumbai's Development Plan 2034, to the Jain International Organisation for setting up a primary and secondary school...