Overview
- The court directed that the Union government be impleaded in the case, including the Ministry of Home Affairs and, as reported, the environment and housing ministries.
- Justice Amrita Sinha said she is contemplating deploying central or paramilitary forces if state and civic bodies do not carry out demolitions.
- The judge rejected more status reports and insisted on visible, ground-level demolition and restoration work instead of further paperwork.
- The East Kolkata Wetlands Management Authority told the court it lacks infrastructure and faced mass agitations that blocked power disconnections, and a planned joint inspection faltered when the KMC did not attend.
- Petitioners allege 500-plus unauthorized structures—identified as 505 in court submissions—were built by filling protected wetlands, a Ramsar-recognized ecological site.