A PIL in the Bombay High Court has alleged that flats allotted to slumdwellers who were living inside Sanjay Gandhi National Park are being illegally sold. The slum dwellers who were evicted from the flats were given National Park flats under the Slum Rehabilitation Authority’s scheme in Chandivali in North Mumbai.

However, Janhit Manch, an NGO, has alleged in the petition that these flats are being sold off  though  the scheme bars sale or leasing of these flats for ten years. Bhagwanji Rayani, president of Janhit Manch, said that he went to one of the housing societies and saw brokers negotiating sale deals. The flats, given to displaced families for as little as Rs 7,000, are going for about Rs 4 lakh apiece, he said.

Division bench of Justices FI Rebello and JH Bhatia sought a reply from the state government and SRA in two weeks.