Salim Ahmed Shabbir Ansari v. the State of Maharashtra and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Unauthorized-construction demolition writ (Civil Writ Petition No. 12351 of 2024, Salim Ahmed Shabbir Ansari v. State of Maharashtra) crossed by owner's regularization writ (Civil Writ Petition No. 6736 of 2026, Anwar Mohd Ishaq Momin v. Bhiwandi Nizampur City Municipal Corporation) with Corporation NOC; Bombay High Court, Coram M. S. Karnik and S. M. Modak, JJ., decision dated 12 June 2026, disposes of both petitions with timelines: six weeks for regularization decision, two-week deficiency communication and two-week compliance cycle, demolition contingent on regularization outcome, removal of unregularized portion by petitioner, objections permitted. Keywords: demolition; regularization; NOC; municipal corporation; unauthorized structure; interim directions; disposed.
What did the court decide?
Both writ petitions disposed of with directions: (i) Corporation to decide the regularization application within six weeks on its own merits in accordance with law; (ii) deficiencies, if any, to be communicated by the Corporation within two weeks and to be complied with by the petitioner within a further two weeks; (iii) demolition action is subject to the regularization decision; if decided against the petitioner, the petitioner shall remove the offending structure or the Corporation shall take demolition action, and any portion not regularized shall be removed by the petitioner; (iv) the petitioner in WP 12351 of 2024 may raise objections to the regularization application.