Sanjay Gandhi National Park
Sanjay Gandhi National Park is said to be one of the most visited national parks in Asia. According to estimates, around 2 million visitors visit this park annually. Collection at the gates in November 2004 touched .
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.