Mumbai, May 19 (UNI) The Bombay High Court has firmly stated that public roads and spaces in Mumbai cannot be treated as dumping grounds for abandoned or confiscated vehicles, directing police stations across the city to rigorously implement the Traffic department’s protocols for the removal and disposal of such vehicles as per an order which was made available on Monday.
A division bench of Justices G S Kulkarni and Advait Sethna, in a recently passed order, underscored that simply relocating these vehicles to dumping yards is inadequate and called for sustained, systematic efforts to ensure their timely disposal.
“In a city like Mumbai, where public roads and footpaths are already under immense pressure due to space constraints, such public areas cannot be encroached upon for storing seized or abandoned vehicles,” the bench observed.