Project Of Public Importance Ought Not To Be Stalled: SC Rejects Slum Dwellers' Plea Against Eviction [Read Order]

The Supreme Court has refused to interfere with the eviction of some slum dwellers for widening of a road in Mumbai. The vacation bench comprising Justice Indira Banerjee and Justice Ajay Rastogi observed that it could not interfere with the project of public importance of widening of a road in a highly congested city like Mumbai. The slum dwellers had approached the apex court...