Can Pre-Existing Eviction Decrees Be Executed After Slum Declaration? Bombay HC Answers

Case Title: Sachin S/o. Purshottam Poojari v. Miss. Flymi Sadanandan

Case No.: Writ Petition No. 12362 of 2025

Coram: Justice Arun R. Pedneker

Court Observation

“Where the execution itself is instituted before the declaration of the property as a Slum Area, a subsequent declaration of the property as a Slum Area cannot, by itself, render the decree inexecutable without obtaining permission. The subsequent declaration does not retrospectively alter the nature or validity of the execution proceedings already instituted,”

Can Pre-Existing Eviction Decrees Be Executed After Slum Declaration? Bombay HC Answers

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