The Bombay High Court (HC) on Wednesday strongly criticised the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) for turning a “blind eye” to the issue of air pollution in the city and for “not doing anything” to effectively address the problem, news agency PTI reported.

A bench of Chief Justice Shree Chandrashekhar and Justice Gautam Ankhad also questioned how the civic body had granted approvals to over 125 construction projects worth more than Rs 1,000 crore in a city like Mumbai, observing that the situation had now gone beyond the BMC’s control.