Bombay high court seeks Maharashtra government’s reply on PIL to rename Dindoshi metro line station as Pa – Times of India

MUMBAI: Bombay high court on Monday asked the Maharashtra government to reply within two weeks to PIL seeking renaming of Dindoshi metro rail station to Pathanwadi.
On June 9, the high court directed the petitioner to first deposit Rs 1 lakh for the hearing.
Naee Roshni social organisation had filed the PIL against Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority (MMRDA) and others, saying the MMRDA violated its own policy when in 2019 it had revised name of the station as Dindoshi “under political pressure.”
Its lawyer Altaf Khan had argued that the station was Pathanwadi metro station but was renamed in violation of its policy for metro line 2A and line 7, revising of a metro rail station’s name on line 7 from “Dindoshi” to “Pathanwadi”.
The petitioner on Monday informed a division bench of Justice Anil K Menon and Justice Makarand S Karnik that they have made a deposit, after which the court granted two-week time to the state government to file its reply.
The policy according to the PIL is that when there are two or more stations in a “revenue village’ the nearest ‘wadi’s’ name would be considered.
PIL claimed that in documents received under RTI, MMRDA admitted that ‘Dindoshi’ is the name of ‘nearby revenue village’ not the nearest wadi in Malad revenue village.