India, July 23 -- The Bombay high court on Monday dismissed a plea challenging the construction of a 15-storey building in Gamdevi heritage precinct in Malabar Hill. The court upheld the validity of provisions contained in the Development Control Regulations, 1991, which permitted the redevelopment of cessed buildings falling in the Grade-III category, exceeding 24 meters in height.

The Gamdevi Residents' Association filed the public interest litigation in 2007, questioning excessive development activity in Saraswati House, a ground-plus-two-storey cessed building located within the heritage precinct. The Heritage Regulations for Greater Bombay, 1995, notified Gamdevi as architecturally significant. It also includes the landmark Mani Bha...