Will pull up dept heads if hoarding order flouted: HC

Taking strong exception to photographs depicting the mushrooming of illegal hoardings by political parties in the vicinity of the high court complex, the Bombay high court on Thursday issued notices to political parties, directing them to show cause as to why contempt proceedings should not be initiated against them for defiance of court orders.

- Karuna Nidhi

MUMBAI:

The division bench of chief justice Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya and justice Amit Borkar also pulled up the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and other civic bodies in Maharashtra over their failure to prevent the installation of illegal hoardings and directed the urban development department to convene a meeting urgently and take punitive action against violators.