India, March 5 -- With the Supreme Court rejecting a special leave petition filed by residents of Bharat Ekta Society, decks have been cleared for developers to get Bandra Kurla Complex's Bharat Nagar, spread over 44 acres, vacated.

The apex court's judgement in the case of Mansoor Ali Farida Irshad Ali and others versus the tahsildar-1, special cell has far-reaching repercussions as it touches upon a technical and little-known topic known as "censused slums". A censused slum is located on land owned by the government, a government undertaking, or a corporation that has been surveyed, enumerated, and recorded by the landowning authority. A notified slum, on the other hand, refers to encroachment on private land that has been notified as ...