Bombay high court rejects civic body’s plea for fire station at Priyadarshini Park

The Bombay high court on Wednesday rejected the civic body’s plea seeking permission to park a fire engine at Priyadarshini Park at Napean Sea Road. The division bench of Justice Abhay Oka and Justice PN Deshmukh held that the civic body’s actions last year of constructing a shed on a part of the ground and parking a fire engine there was “completely illegal” and “high handed.” The 20-acre ground was handed over to the Malabar Hill Citizen’s Forum for maintenance under a leave and license agreement by the civic body in 1989. In April last year, the gardens superintendent of the BMC issued a termination notice, claiming that the Forum had breached conditions of the license and the BMC sought to take back possession of the ground. In June, a shed was constructed and a fire brigade was parked under it.

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