A year after mid-day exposed violations in coastal and civic rules, the Sun Beach Resort in Gorai will finally be razed to the ground, said BMC officials, as the Bombay High Court has dismissed the owner’s plea for relief. A source who manages the property said they have applied for regularisation. Mid-Day had exposed the violations of civic and Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) rules in its reports in April 2022, which prompted the BMC to conduct an inspection of the resort.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), after completing the ground inspection, served a notice to the hotel owners in February for unauthorised construction of rooms on ground floor plus the first floor, security cabin, open shed near swimming pool, banquet, seven wooden shacks (ground plus one) and 12 wooden shacks on the ground floor. In order to protect his resort, owner Abdul Hamid Mapkhan Shah immediately moved the Bombay City Civil Court in Dindoshi (Borivli Division, Goregaon). But, civil court judge Ashish Ayachit on April 13 dismissed his appeal for relief.