India, Aug. 9 -- Tensions are running high in Willingdon View Co-operative Housing Society (CHS), a 34-storey tower in south Mumbai's Tardeo, where 27 families must vacate 34 flats spread across the 17th to 34th floors by August 27.

The move follows a Supreme Court order last week declining to interfere with the Bombay high court's directive to evict residents from the upper floors, which have neither an Occupancy Certificate (OC) nor a fire department No Objection Certificate (NOC).

By Friday evening, the residents are required to submit undertakings to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) confirming they will vacate by the deadline. Any failure to comply, officials said, will lead to forcible eviction with police assistance an...