Zopadpatti Seva Sanstha Through Its Authorised Representative Prabhakar Kamble v. The State Of Maharashtra And 5 Others

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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 101 OF 2015 Zopadpatti Seva Sanstha through its Authorised Representative Prabhakar Kamble ... Petitioner.

V/s.

The State of Maharashtra and Ors.

... Respondents.

Mr. Abhijeet Naik I/b. Rajesh Punraj Khobragade for the Petitioner. Mr. L.T. Satelkar, AGP for the Respondents 1 to 4. CORAM : PRADEEP NANDRAJOG,C.J. & N.M. JAMDAR, J.

DATE : 15 JULY 2019.

P.C. :- The Writ Petitioner, by way of a Public Interest Litigation, seeks to espouse the cause of slum dwellers occupying authorized land notified as Sanjay Gandhi National Park. 2.

No direction can be issued by the Court to the Respondents to regularize the slums in the premise of the Sanjay

18. PIL 101.15.doc Gandhi National Park. The trespassers have to be removed from the Park and if there is a scheme of the Government for rehabilitation, the Petitioner could espouse the cause for rehabilitation of the slum dwellers by way of a proper constituted Writ Petition. 3.

The Public Interest Litigation is dismissed.

N.M. JAMDAR, J.

CHIEF JUSTICE