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HC directs Maharashtra CM to look into functioning of Mumbai city collector's office

Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been told by the Bombay High Court to personally look into the functioning off the City Collectorate office after it came across several petitions where prima facie it has been held that action initiated by the Collector was arbitrary.

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Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis has been told by the Bombay High Court to personally look into the functioning off the City Collectorate office after it came across several petitions where prima facie it has been held that action initiated by the Collector was arbitrary.

A division bench of Justice VM Kanade and Justice PR Bora has asked the government to file an affidavit detailing whether the action being initiated by Collector Ashwini Joshi is at the behest of the government or in her personal capacity. The direction were given during the hearing of a petition filed by SC Khambata Trust which had approached the court seeking to stay a show cause notice issued by the collector to them. 

The Trust claimed that the notice issued to them seeking reply on why the lease of the building should not be cancelled is illegal and over reaching. The court asked the Collector, who had posted the hearing on the notice on Wednesday afternoon initially, stayed the meeting and then the notice. The bench then, terming the action as malafide, stayed its implementation for four weeks.

The Eros building has been in news recently after the City Collector had sealed the Eros Theatres and other premises in the Cambata Building opposite Churchgate railway station. The theatre and the Trust then rushed to the court challenging the action taken, claiming it to be arbitrary and illegal. Following this, the court directed the authorities to unseal the premises. 

The premises were sealed following a dispute between the employees of Cambata Aviation and the management, which has not paid them their dues since 2015. The industrial court had ordered the authorities to take the action under Section 267 of the Maharashtra land revenue code.

Earlier a first information report against Cambata Aviation and Bird Worldwide Flight Service had also been lodged for allegedly refusing to cooperate with government officials who were confiscating equipment on court orders.

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