The Bombay High Court on Tuesday refused to interfere in the Maharashtra government's decision to convert the Mayor's bungalow here into a memorial for late Shiv Sena founder Bal Thackeray, noting it does not find any valid ground for the challenge against the policy decision, reported news agency PTI.

A bench of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Sandeep Marne, while dismissing a bunch of pleas, said it cannot sit as an appellate authority over the decision taken by planning experts except in cases where there is a "gross violation" in the planning norms, reported PTI.

"Ultimately, what is done is merely change the label of the structure from 'Mayor's Bungalow' to 'Balasaheb Thackeray Rashtriya Smarak'," the court said.