The Centre on June 6 submitted an affidavit in the Bombay High Court, asserting its ownership and title over a land in Mumbai's Kanjurmarg area, where the Maharashtra government had proposed to construct a Metro car shed, and claimed that a decree in the name of a private firm with respect to the land was obtained fraudulently and should be held as null and void.
The Centre and the Maharashtra government are locked in a dispute over the ownership of the said land. The State government had proposed to construct a car shed for its Metro project on about 100 acres of the land.
In March this year, the Maharashtra government learnt that the High Court had in October 2020 granted the decree of over 6,000-acre land in the Kanjurmarg area to a private firm- Adarsh Water Parks and Resorts.
