The petitioner had contended that the board's composition violated a 2025 amendment to the Maharashtra Public Trusts Act, which capped the number of life-trustees in public trust boards.
Justice Milind N Jadhav found the Corporation’s pace of action particularly troubling, noting that the entire process from notice to demolition was completed in just 13 days.
The Court flagged the increasing trend of citizens being compelled to approach constitutional courts for technical irregularities including biometric anomalies in their Aadhaar records.
“There is certainly a need for an area-wise systematic and scientific approach to be adopted to phase-wise do away with the slums in Mumbai,” the Court added.
The Court noted that unlike the Commercial Courts Act of 2015, which explicitly mandates pre-litigation mediation, the Mediation Act deliberately keeps civil mediation voluntary and consensual.