Panaji: The Bombay excessive court docket quashed and placement aside an make clear of the secretary, urban pattern, dated April 23, 2025, which location aside a demolition make clear of the executive officer (CO) of the Mormugao Municipal Council (MMC) for a building in a ruinous situation in the coronary heart of Vasco.Justice Valmiki Menezes directed the CO to substantiate that one and all occupants vacate the one-storey structure, ‘Shridhar Building’, cordon it off, which consists of over 20 industrial institutions, and guarantee that it’s demolished interior eight weeks, as the building, if it persevered to exist, posed drawing near near possibility to existence.
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The excessive court docket rejected the plea of those working companies in the building seeking six weeks to vacate.
“I regarded as these submissions, and rejected the same in the mild of the actual observations made by Goa Engineering College in its document dated Jan 9, 2026, the keep it opined that there may maybe be every chance that the structure may maybe presumably additionally undergo surprising failure, which would reason a detailed possibility to existence, and would additionally endanger the lives of the occupants of the building and pedestrians in the vicinity.
On this depend, no extra extended time will seemingly be granted to the occupants to vacate the structure,” the court docket acknowledged.
The HC figured out that there used to be no staunch explanation for the secretary of urban pattern to interfere in the make clear of the CO of MMC and held that the CO’s demolition make clear of Jan 18, 2024 happy all requirements of Share 190 of the Act. It additionally noticed that Goa Engineering College rendered a entire conception in its document dated Jan 9, 2026, which unequivocally advised that the building be demolished.
