Campa Cola Compound

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Campa Cola Compound also known as Campa Cola housing society is an apartment complex in the southern part of Worli in South Mumbai, India. The society is occupied by around 230 families who have been residing there for over 25 years.[1] It has seven buildings namely Midtown Apartments, Orchid Tower, Patel Apartments 7A & 7B, Esha Ekta Apartments, BY Apartments & Shubh Apartments.[2] The society rose to national attention because of a court judgment that deemed construction beyond five floors illegal and called for razing it down.[3]

History

Image of the compound from one of the buildings

In the 1980s, three builders constructed seven buildings on a plot that was previously used by a factory owned by Pure Drinks. Despite having the permission to build only six floors, the builders continued to construct the seventh floor and eventually built up to seventeen and twenty floors respectively.[4] The society was first reported about when its residents approached Bombay High Court for water connections in 1999. Despite being constructed in between 1981 and 1989, the society residents relied on tankers for water supply.[2] One of the builders, B.K Gupta was reported saying that it was understood that builders would exceed the permissible height and that the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) would regularize the extra floors after charging penalties.[4] In 2005, the Bombay high court ordered BMC to initiate a time-bound process to demolish all floors above the fifth, which were illegal.[5] In February 2013, the Supreme Court of India gave the verdict that: “Although the members of the housing societies knew that the construction had been raised in violation of the sanctioned plan and permission for occupation of the buildings had not been issued by the competent authority, a large number of them occupied the illegally constructed buildings.” [6]

References

  1. ↑ Vasudevan, Vaishnavi (13 November 2013). "SC stays razing of Mumbai's Campa Cola building till May". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ghosh, Shamik (13 November 2013). "Campa Cola society demolition put on hold as Supreme Court steps in at eleventh hour". NDTV. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 
  3. ↑ Agencies (13 November 2013). "Campa Cola housing society: SC stays demolition till May 31, 2014". Economic Times. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Dutta, Pronoti (13 November 2013). "Lessons From The Campa Cola Case". Mumbai Boss. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 
  5. ↑ Purohit, Kunal (13 November 2013). "As chaos and confusion reigned in Mumbai's Campa Cola,politicians thrived". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 
  6. ↑ Patwa, Sharvari (12 November 2013). "Campa Cola architect says buyers too knew it was all illegal". Indian Express. Retrieved 13 November 2013. 

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