The Bombay High Court has ordered the demolishing of the 31-floor Adarsh Housing Society building. The order to raze the building comes after the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests (MOEF) passed an order to demolish the scam-hit society in 2011, following which its members approached the Bombay High Court challenging it.


The Environment Ministry had on January 16, 2011  directed the Society to demolish within three months the "unauthorised" 31-storey building in South Mumbai for violating coastal regulations.


About 103 members of the Society filed a petition in the High Court in 2011 challenging the ministry's order on the grounds that it is "wrong in law".


The court has now passed an order for the building to be demolished.

The high-rise meant to house families of Kargil martyrs came under the scanner following reports that flats were doled out to politicians, top defence personnel including two former Army chiefs and bureaucrats as well as their kin.