A bench of Justices Shantanu Kemkar and Rajesh Ketkar directed the state to file its reply within four weeks.
The PIL was filed by traffic constable Sunil Toke, in which he alleged that around 1,850 retired personnel of the Mumbai Police currently continued to illegally occupy the police quarters in the city.
This, while 2,500 serving policemen await allotment of the official housing, he said.
He has also sought that such offenders be directed to pay the house rent, power dues, etc for the time that they have occupied the police quarters illegally.
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