Construction at the 8.8-acre Vikhroli Business City project has allegedly continued despite stop-work notices issued over repeated dust and noise violations, prompting state and civic authorities to seek legal and police intervention. The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has approached the District Magistrate, Mumbai Suburban, under Section 152 of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), seeking enforcement for the removal of the public nuisance. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has also written to the Park Site police station, asking that appropriate action permitted under law be taken if construction or related activity is found to be continuing at the site.
The commercial project is situated at the junction of LBS Marg and the Jogeshwari-Vikhroli Link Road (JVLR). Managed by Mapletree and being constructed by L&W Construction Pvt Ltd, the development covers 3.7 hectares and is planned to have a gross floor area of 2.3 million sq ft. The site has faced regulatory scrutiny over alleged repeated violations of air-pollution control requirements.
A stop-work notice was first issued by the BMC in January 2026. This was followed by another stop-work order from the MPCB on July 1. During its initial inspections, the pollution control board recorded 10 separate violations at the project. These included the absence of anti-smog guns, debris being kept uncovered and diesel-powered compressors being operated without acoustic enclosures. Air-quality monitoring conducted subsequently also recorded PM10 and PM2.5 concentrations that were considerably higher than the National Ambient Air Quality Standards. During a follow-up inspection on June 9, most of the previously identified shortcomings were found to have remained unresolved, while construction was allegedly continuing.
The matter subsequently reached the National Green Tribunal (NGT), which questioned the action taken by the pollution control authorities despite the violations that had been identified. The tribunal was reported as saying that it could not understand why a closure order had not been issued despite the MPCB recording the violations, until the required compliances were completed. Four major violations were found to still be continuing during the MPCB’s latest inspection. The required 25-foot-high metal sheets had not been erected around the project site. Water-sprinkling systems, which were required during the loading and unloading of raw materials, were also found to be absent.
L&W Construction Pvt Ltd, however, disputed the allegation that construction activity was continuing. A representative of the contractor was reported as saying that operations had been stopped around a month earlier. When asked about construction allegedly continuing between January and July, the representative declined to comment.
The same representative had earlier maintained that all required pollution-mitigation measures were in place. It had also been stated that official queries would be addressed, while the contractor maintained that it had not received a stop-work notice from the BMC.