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BOMBAY HC RESTRAINS POSTS ON SAMTA NAGAR REDEVELOPMENT ROW
What this means for you: The underlying redevelopment grievance remains a separate, undecided question from the defamation suit.
The Bombay High Court's ad-interim order arrives amid a long-running redevelopment dispute at the 55-acre Samta Nagar MHADA colony in Kandivali. The order restrains further circulation of specific social media content pending the next hearing; it does not adjudicate the underlying redevelopment grievances raised by residents and activists. This publication is tracking the matter as it develops and will update readers as the litigation proceeds. The Bombay High Court has granted ad-interim relief to S D Corporation Pvt Ltd, the Shapoorji Pallonji joint-venture developer of the Samta Nagar MHADA redevelopment project in Kandivali, restraining further circulation of social media posts, videos and messages that the company says are defamatory. The order, passed in a Rs 100 crore defamation suit against activist Devang Dave and two others, remains in force until the next hearing. The Samta Nagar colony redevelopment spans roughly 55 acres and has been under way for several years, with the developer and residents disputing the pace of rehabilitation at various points during construction. Campaign material claims roughly 440 families as affected by delays in the Samta Nagar redevelopment. This publication has not independently verified the families' rehabilitation status, and the underlying redevelopment grievance itself remains a separate, undecided question from the defamation suit now before the court. Ad-interim relief of this kind is granted on a prima facie view and typically without a detailed trial of the underlying facts; it holds only until the respondents have had an opportunity to place their case before the court at the next hearing. Devang Dave and the other respondents have not yet provided comment; their response will be carried when received, consistent with this publication's right-of-reply practice on all active-litigation coverage. Readers should note that an ad-interim order of this nature restrains specific circulation; it does not, by itself, determine whether the restrained content was in fact defamatory — that question remains for full hearing.
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