India, July 26 -- The Bombay high court on Monday restrained the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) and a developer from proceeding with slum rehabilitation projects on around 3.7 acres of land allotted to the University of Mumbai (MU) for expansion of its Kalina campus.

The land, spread across at least 20 plots, could not be used to rehabilitate slum dwellers just because the state government had failed to take effective steps to remove encroachments and hand over the land parcel to the university, the division bench of justices GS Kulkarni and Arif Doctor said while restraining Track Estates Private Limited, the developer, from acting upon a letter of intent issued by the SRA towards approval of the SRA projects.

The bench was hearin...