India, Feb. 3 -- Six months after the Bombay High Court directed the Panvel Municipal Corporation (PMC) to remove encroachments from a 200-year-old Jewish burial ground in Panvel, the Jewish Heritage Trust (JHT) is back before the court, contending that its June 2025 order had not been effectively complied with. The trust has now alleged that a plot of land that was part of the burial ground has been classified as a "residential zone" by the civic body.

In its petition, filed through chief trustee Raymond Gadkar, the JHT has urged the court to set aside the allegedly illegal classification of Plot No. 210 in Panvel's D-Ward.

Appearing for the JHT on Monday, advocate Gauraj Shah told the court that an unauthorised structure had come up o...