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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR MHADA CLUSTER REDEVELOPMENT CASE ON AUGUST 13
The Supreme Court has scheduled a hearing for 13 August 2026 in a batch of petitions challenging MHADA's integrated cluster redevelopment scheme covering roughly 98.27 acres at Bandra Reclamation and 34.33 acres at the Adarsh Nagar layout in Worli. A bench of Justice Vikram Nath and Justice Sandeep Mehta had earlier directed, on 29 July 2026, that no work order be issued until the matter is next heard. The dispute traces back to Government Resolutions dated 25 April 2025 and 15 December 2025, under which the State mandated cluster redevelopment of the two layouts and barred individual housing societies from pursuing standalone redevelopment. Several societies — including those at Adarsh Nagar and Bandra Reclamation — say they had already begun independent redevelopment plans and appointed their own developers before the cluster policy overrode those plans. The Bombay High Court, on 2 July 2026, upheld both the Government Resolutions and the tender process, holding that the scheme was conceived in the larger public interest and that allottees and lessees of MHADA land possess only limited rights against the State's broader planning authority. Adani Properties had emerged as the successful bidder for the construction and development agency tender floated in April 2026. The High Court had itself recorded the State's undertaking that no work order would issue for four weeks, to allow the societies to approach the Supreme Court — which they did. As of this writing, the outcome of the 13 August hearing had not been reported. HPTimes will carry the Supreme Court's order in the next available issue once confirmed from primary sources.
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