The Bombay High Court on Friday slammed organisations and persons putting up pandals on public roads during Ganesh Utsavs, Navratri and other festivals and said 'these pandals are just extorting money.'

"In principle we are against all this. We are of the opinion that Ganesh Utsavs, Navratri and other festivals that are celebrated in open spaces of the city should be stopped. Who is benefiting? These pandals are just extorting money," a division bench of Justices V M Kanade and Shalini Phansalkar-Joshi said.