Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park is an protected area near Mumbai in Maharashtra State in India. It was formerly known as Borivali National Park.
It is notable as one of the major national parks existing within a metropolis limit and is one of the most visited parks in the world.
Hosbet Suresh
Suresh participated with retired justices Rajinder Sachar and Siraj Mehfuz Daud in an investigation by the Indian People's Human Rights Tribunal into a massive slum clearance drive in Mumbai, with the ostensible purpose of preserving the Sanjay Gandhi National Park.
The demolitions on 22–23 January had been undertaken despite a notification from the state government to stay demolitions until September.
The people had not been allowed to take the remains of their homes, which had been burnt.
Justice Sachar described the scene as "Barbaric, savage. It's as if a bomb has fallen here".
In August 2000 the judges, joined by former Supreme Court judge V. R. Krishna Iyer, held a two-day hearing into the clearances in which about 60,000 people had been evicted.
The inquiry covered both legal aspects of the clearances and the human impact.