1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION NOTICE OF MOTION NO. 396 OF 2007 IN PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 87 OF 2006 The Bombay Environmental Action Group & Anr. ... Petitioners. Versus The State of Maharashtra & Ors. .... Respondents. Mr. Gautam Patel with Mr. Sharan Jagtyani i/by Mr. M. V. Jaykar for the Petitioners. Mr. R. B. Raghuvanshi with Ms. Jyoti Ambekar for Union of India. Mr. Ravi Kadam, Advocate General, with Mr. Niranjan Pandit, AGP for the State. Mr. K. K. Singhvi, Sr. Counsel with Mr. S.S.Pakale, Mr. A.Y. Sakhare and Ms. Shobha Ajitkumar for Mumbai Municipal Corporation. Mr. R. S. Apte with Mr. A.A.Garge for Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation. CORAM : BILAL NAZKI and SMT. V. K. TAHILRAMANI, JJ. DATED : 29TH APRIL, 2009. P.C.: This notice of motion has been moved with a limited prayer that 13 nallas, namely, Laxmi Baug Nalla, Usha Nagar Nalla, Crompton Nalla, Kannamwar Nalla, Bombay Oxygen Nalla, Kesar Baug Nalla, Nani Pada Nalla, Boundary Nalla, Somayya Nalla, Subhash Nagar Nalla, Rajendra 2 Nagar Nalla, Dahisar Nalla and Dhasakwadi Nalla be permitted to be widened at the outfall area because they have become narrower and if this state of affairs continued, ensuing monsoon can create problem and as a result the citizen of Mumbai will have to face inundation. 2. Learned Counsel for the petitioners submits that there are mangroves and the road widening will spoil the mangroves. The protection of the mangroves is taken care of by the requisite statute. Therefore, we allow the Corporation to widen the mouth of streams provided that is not forbidden by law or if any sanctions are needed from any statutory authority, the work will be done only after obtaining sanctions from such authority. 3. With the above observations, the notice of motion is disposed of. Sd/- (BILAL NAZKI, J.) Sd/- (SMT. V. K. TAHILRAMANI, J.)