Mumbai: The residents of Camp Cola society will have to search for a new place by the end of this month as the apex court has ordered the residents to vacate the place by May 31.
Nearly 100 flats in the society were declared illegal, in November after bulldozers from the city corporation arrived for demolition, the Supreme Court intervened stating that occupants would be able to live in the high-rise in South Mumbai till May 31.
According to the residents they were duped by the builders. In 2002 they came to know that their flats are illegal and they tried to get court and politicians to regularise their homes.
They had also asked Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan to bring an ordinance – or an executive order – to save their flats.