In Brief
Janhit Manch, a public interest group, filed PIL No. 17 of 2017 in the Bombay High Court challenging a Municipal Commissioner's order dated 31.08.2016 regarding excessive refuge areas granted to a developer in a large Mumbai residential building. The High Court's initial orders directed transfer of the PIL to the Supreme Court, where related Special Leave Petitions by both the petitioners and the developer were already pending. The Supreme Court allowed the transfer, consolidating all related issues for final adjudication. It dismissed the developer's challenge to interim orders, holding such orders could be modified upon substantive hearing before this Court, thus serving the ends of justice by deciding all connected matters together.
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