India, May 9 -- Based on Hindustan Times' May 5 story on the possibility of demolition of Hindutva ideologue Vinayak Damodar Savarkar's residence, Savarkar Sadan, in Shivaji Park, a public interest litigation (PIL) was filed in the Bombay high court (HC) on Thursday seeking heritage status for the building. The PIL also seeks the court's intervention in declaring Savarkar Sadan a "monument of national importance" and formulating a special compensation policy for inhabitants of the building.

The petitioner, Abhinav Bharat Congress, is an "independent public policy think tank". According to its website, it is committed to realising the dream of "an absolutely independent sovereign nation; nurtured in the East by Brahmaputra and by Sindhu i...