Mumbai: A 7,000-sq-ft area in Mittal Chambers still lies bare, even after the Pakistan High Commission leased it to set up its consulate here in Mumbai.
The problem? The building's cooperative society has refused to allow the consulate to be set up on the grounds that the consulate will pose serious problems of crowd control and might even be a terrorist threat.
"If the Pakistan High Commission is set up here, there will be all kinds of inconvenience, nuisance and disturbance of peace," says V Rajagopal, Chairman of Mittal Chambers Cooperative Society.
But the owner of the building, Ravi Singhal, says those reasons are not good enough, and is taking the society to court.
His solutions to their problems - like having this separate entrance for visa applicants - fell on deaf ears, he says.
"Going by what the society is saying, the Pakistan High Commission cannot find premises anywhere in the State of Maharashtra," reasons Singhal.
Singhal points out that the Nariman Point area has at least nine other consulate offices in the immediate vicinity.
Opposing this particular consulate, he says, is communal. The case will come up for hearing in the cooperative court on February 20.
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