The Bombay High Court today asked BJP&nbsp;to remove illegally constructed portion of its state&nbsp;headquarters in the Nariman Point area here within six months.&nbsp;
The court allowed the ruling party to retain the&nbsp;construction which is authorised.
A division bench, headed by Justice Abhay Oka, was&nbsp;hearing a PIL alleging that the BJP office occupies over 4,000&nbsp;sq feet of area and not all of it is authorised.
The BJP lawyer had told the court yesterday that it was&nbsp;ready to reduce the constructed space to 1,200 square feet, as&nbsp;sanctioned originally.
The HC today directed that the civic body should demolish&nbsp;illegal part of the building if the party didn't do it in six&nbsp;months.&nbsp;
It asked BJP to ascertain within three months how much&nbsp;area had been earmarked for its office as per the development&nbsp;plan of 1991.
The judges also asked the government to consider shifting&nbsp;offices of the state undertakings such as Maharashtra Tourism&nbsp;Development Corporation and the State Employment Exchange,&nbsp;and also that of Janata Dal from this area which was&nbsp;originally reserved for 'recreational garden'.
Maharashtra Advocate General Srihari Aney had told the&nbsp;division bench earlier that "anything not permissible under&nbsp;the law must go".&nbsp;
According to the petitioner 'Nariman Point Churchgate&nbsp;Citizens Welfare Trust', there exists no sanctioned plan of&nbsp;the BJP office building. It has also taken objection to other&nbsp;buildings in the area, saying it is reserved for a&nbsp;recreational garden in the development plan.&nbsp;

The Bombay High Court today asked BJP&nbsp;to remove illegally constructed portion of its state&nbsp;headquarters in the Nariman Point area here within six months

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