Taking the plan of restoring the 150-year-old Esplanade Mansion forward, landlord Sadik Ali appointed structural architect Chetan Raikar to carry out the complete restoration work and informed the Bombay High Court (HC) about it on Tuesday. The bench of justice S J Kathawalla and justice RI Chagla has given Ali and Raikar two weeks time to submit a break-up of the restoration work and its corresponding costs to be prepared by the structural architect.

In the letter given to Raikar on February 29, Ali stated that he appointed him as the Conservative Heritage Consultant for the project. Raikar accepted the appointment in writing on March 3 and asked for time to work out the scheme that would outline the process of restoration.