MUMBAI, Sept. 3 -- The Bombay high court recently directed the tenants of a Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA) building in the Bandra-Kurla Complex to remove unauthorised alterations and stop illegal usage of the common spaces within four weeks, issuing a warning that such violations could not be regularised. The petition was filed by the Fortune Square Society, challenging a notice issued by the SRA on August 18, 2025, which pointed out unauthorised alterations in the slum tenement at Motilal Nehru Nagar CHS, BKC. The notice highlighted large-scale violations in the building, including illegal construction of the mezzanine floor without an approval from the competent authority. It also pointed out that the commercial tenements were converted into hotel rooms, restaurants and a banquet hall, while the common passage, refuge area and lift lobbies were also being encroached by tenants who used them as kitchens and party spaces. Appearing for the petitioners, counsel Akash Rebello acknowledged that the tenements were allotted for residential purposes only, and the residents were not allowed to make any alterations to the building. However, he submitted, the petitioners were ready to comply with the notice and requested the court to grant some time to them to carry out the exercise. Accepting the request, the division bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Manjusha Deshpande ordered the petitioners to restore the premises to their original state within four weeks. In light of this, the court further directed the competent authorities not to take any adverse action in this specific time frame. Additionally, the court emphasised that serious illegalities pertaining to the misuse of SRA tenements could not be regularised. "Considering the abuse of the slum tenements of the nature as noticed by the SRA by such illegalities of additions, alterations, amalgamations, there is no question of any regularisation of such illegalities," (sic) it stated. Disposing of the petition, the high court said that if an undertaking was not given by the petitioners to the chief executive officer of MHADA and the SRA, it would automatically presume that the tenants were not interested in restoring the premises to their original condition, and the designated officers would then be free to take appropriate action as per the law....