If you have a case pending at the Mazgaon court, you will now have to travel to Sewri to get the work done. Yesterday the court was vacated in panic mode in a matter of 10 minutes, after an inspection report declared it unsafe and recommended that the building be shut down immediately. Subsequently, eight rooms were allotted at Sewri sessions court as an alternate venue in which the affairs of the Mazgaon Court are to be conducted.

According to advocates who practice in the Mazgaon court, they have been living in fear since the building was inaugurated in 1997. Advocate S M Z Nagamia of the senior managing committee, Mazgaon Bar Association, said, “A few days after its inauguration, the lift suddenly broke down. Every year the building is repaired, but the situation remains the same.