SC refuses to stay HC order scrapping coastal road project clearances

Top court agrees to hear Greater Mumbai Municipal Corporation appeal for interim relief on August 20

The Supreme Court on Friday refused to stay a Bombay High Court order quashing the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) clearance for the Rs 14,000 crore coastal road work, but said it would hear the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)’s plea for interim relief on August 20.

BMC, engineering conglomerate Larsen and Toubro, and a Hindustan Construction Company- Housing Development Corporation joint venture had approached the top court on Friday with a plea that the raw materials for construction of the road had already reached the site and would go bad owing to the ongoing monsoon. A two-judge bench led by Chief