Last Friday, the tainted Kharghar high-rise Green Heritage made a narrow escape when its builders, Abhishek Developers, convinced the officials from CIDCO half an hour into their demolition drive that they would themselves do away with the illegal structures. Having averted the demolition with this promise, the builders are now moving a conveniently sluggish pace – in three days, they have removed windowpanes, that too only on one side of the clubhouse.

After Friday’s negotiations, the developers’ fortunes witnessed a miraculous turnaround when the CIDCO not only cut short its demolition drive by yielding to the developers’ request, but also extended the deadline by three months.