PIL against '22 Dharavi tender dismissed by HC
Mumbai, Feb. 28 -- The Bombay high court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation (PIL) challenging the revised 2022 tender for the redevelopment of Dharavi, one of Asia's largest slum clusters, and the inclusion of the state-owned Mother Dairy plot in Kurla and salt pan lands in other parts of Mumbai within the project.
The petitioner, Vasant Shiwappa Pailwan, was a "stranger" to the bidding process that preceded the award of the tender in December 2022, as he was not among the bidders; hence, he could not be permitted to lay a challenge to the tender and the PIL filed by him had no "foundational basis", the court held.
"The project and the subsequent progress concerns raised by the petitioner in this PIL has no factual foundationa...
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