The Bombay High Court on Thursday directed the Mumbai suburban district collector to reconstruct within one month a demolished crematorium here used by the fisherfolk community and ordered for its cost to be recovered from a petitioner who claimed it was constructed in violation of coastal regulation zone rules.

A division bench of Chief Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice Madhav Jamdar had earlier held that the crematorium located on Erangal beach in suburban Malad was demolished by officials from the collector's office without following due process of law.