The Bombay High Court in an interim order observed 'deploying bulldozers' is not the solution since it brings to the fore 'the problem of human displacement,' and called for a considerate approach to deal with alleged encroachments.
The case: While hearing a petition against the demolition drive initiated by Western railways to raze 101 'illegal structures' to the ground, a bench of Justice Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale said on 8 February:
“Throughout, we bear in mind that merely labelling these persons as “encroachers” is not going to answer the problem. This is a serious problem in the city and it is a problem of human displacement. Sometimes, the scale of the displacement is beyond the imagination. It has to be addressed in a more considered fashion than by merely deploying bulldozers on the site."