A person cannot feed birds from a flat's balcony creating nuisance due to droppings and filth for other occupants in a residential society, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with an order restraining a woman from feeding birds from her balcony flat in a high rise building in Mumbai.

"If you are living in a residential society, then you have to conduct yourself according to the norms," said a bench of Justices U U Lalit and Indu Malhotra. Counsel appearing for petitioner Jigeesha Thakore said it was not a case of nuisance but of strained business relations between the parties concerned due to which a civil suit was filed against her in the lower court.