Overview
- Residents told the Bombay High Court on Thursday they are ready to take possession of their rehabilitation flats and to sign Permanent Alternate Accommodation Agreements, the paperwork that finalizes handover.
- The bench directed MHADA’s chief officer to decide before the April 17 hearing when the contractor’s defect‑liability period starts, how long the lease runs, what lease rent applies, and how much land will be leased to the society.
- The court recorded that the defect‑liability clause will stand as written in the MHADA–contractor contract, which means the court will not change those terms.
- A third‑party structural audit informed the court the eight rehab buildings are sound, stable and fit for habitation, even as residents had flagged falling plaster, lift faults and staged a chain hunger strike.
- Judges earlier ended transit‑rent payments from April 1 and warned MHADA could reallocate the units, pressuring progress in a project that displaced about 672 families and moved to MHADA in 2018 after the original developer defaulted.