The Times of India          07.11.2013 

Civic body starts razing illegal 7-storey building in Masjid Bunder

MUMBAI: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) on Wednesday demolished portions of an illegal under-construction ground-plus-seven storey building in Masjid Bunder.

According to civic officials, internal walls of the fifth to seventh floors were demolished. Action will continue on Thursday, too. The building in Narsi Natha Street was originally a ground-plus-three storey building which was demolished as it was dilapidated, but the developer then went on to build seven floors without any permission.

The BMC has demolished portions of the building twice earlier at different stages of construction, but then the matter went to court, and action had to be halted.

"The court had given some oral order, which when examined by the legal department said that action can be initiated as an oral order is valid only for a stipulated time period," said a civic official from the building and factory department of B-ward.

B-ward has several fully or partially illegal buildings, most of them are entangled in court cases and hence action cannot be initiated.