Lamenting lack of space for burying the dead in the metropolis, the Bombay High Court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government what was the point of having skyscrapers when there is no place for burial grounds in the city.

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar made the observation while hearing a petition filed by a local resident, Mohammed Furqan Qureshi, seeking a separate burial ground in the metropolis for Sunni Muslims.