Jigna Parin Vira v. the Mumbai Repairs and Reconstruction Board ( a Unit of Mhada)
Case brief
What is this about?
Neutral citation 2026:BHC-OS:11559-DB; WRIT PETITION NO.3085 OF 2025; petitioner Jigna Parin Vira; respondents The Mumbai Repairs and Reconstruction Board and anr. (advocates for respondent-MHADA); subject: declaration as eligible occupant (order at page 19, Exhibit “C”) and pending representations for allotment dated 19/01/2021, 13/04/2022 and 26/10/2023; relief: direction to Chief Officer, Mumbai Repairs and Reconstruction Board to decide the representations within six weeks; writ petition disposed of; decided 5 May 2026; coram M. S. Karnik & S. M. Modak, JJ.; advocates: Adv. I. K. Tripathi i/b Adv. C. K. Tripathi (petitioner); Adv. Sayali Apte i/b Adv. P. G. Lad (respondent-MHADA).
What did the court decide?
Direction to the Chief Officer, the Mumbai Repairs and Reconstruction Board to take a decision on the petitioner's representations for allotment dated 19/01/2021, 13/04/2022 and 26/10/2023 expeditiously and in any case within six weeks from the date of communication of the order.