[[Image:Campa_Cola_protests.jpg|thumb|Image from the Change.org petition to save Campa Cola Compound]]
'''Campa Cola Compound''' also known as Campa Cola housing society is an apartment complex in the southern part of [[Mumbai]] city in [[India]]. The society is occupied by more than 140 families who have been residing there for over 25 years <ref name=HT>{{cite news|last=Vasudevan|first=Vaishnavi|title=SC stays razing of Mumbai's Campa Cola building till May|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/SC-stays-razing-of-Mumbai-s-Campa-Cola-building-till-May/Article1-1150567.aspx|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=13 November 2013}}</ref>. It has two buildings namely Orchid and Midtown.<ref name=ndtv></ref>The society rose to national attention because of a court judgment that deemed construction beyond five floors illegal and called for razing it down <ref name=ET>{{cite news|last=Agencies|title=Campa Cola housing society: SC stays demolition till May 31, 2014|url=http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics-and-nation/campa-cola-housing-society-sc-stays-demolition-till-may-31-2014/articleshow/25686172.cms|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Economic Times|date=13 November 2013}}</ref>.
==History==
In the 1980s, three builders constructed seven buildings on a plot that was previously used by a factory owned by Pure Drinks. Despite having the permission to build only six floors, the builders continued to construct the seventh floor and eventually built upto seventeen and twenty floors respectively. <ref name="Mumbai Boss">{{cite news|last=Dutta|first=Pronoti|title=Lessons From The Campa Cola Case|url=http://mumbaiboss.com/2013/05/06/lessons-from-the-campa-cola-case/|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Mumbai Boss|date=13 November 2013}}</ref>
The society was first reported about when its residents approached [[Bombay High Court]] for water connections in 1999. Despite being constructed in between 1981 and 1989, the society residents relied on tankers for water supply. <ref name=ndtv>{{cite news|last=Ghosh|first=Shamik|title=Campa Cola society demolition put on hold as Supreme Court steps in at eleventh hour|url=http://www.ndtv.com/article/cheat-sheet/campa-cola-society-demolition-put-on-hold-as-supreme-court-steps-in-at-eleventh-hour-445297?curl=1384326718|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=NDTV|date=13 November 2013}}</ref> One of the builders, B.K Gupta was reported saying that it was understood that builders would exceed the permissible height and that the [[Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation]] (BMC) would regularize the extra floors after charging penalties.<ref name="Mumbai Boss"></ref> In 2005, the Bombay high court ordered BMC to initiate a time-bound process to demolish all floors above the fifth, which were illegal. <ref name=HT2>{{cite news|last=Purohit|first=Kunal|title=As chaos and confusion reigned in Mumbai's Campa Cola,politicians thrived|url=http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/Mumbai/As-chaos-and-confusion-reigned-in-Mumbai-s-Campa-Cola-politicians-thrived/Article1-1150539.aspx|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Hindustan Times|date=13 November 2013}}</ref> In February 2013, the [[Supreme Court of India]] gave the verdict that: “Although the members of the housing societies knew that the construction had been raised in violation of the sanctioned plan and permission for occupation of the buildings had not been issued by the competent authority, a large number of them occupied the illegally constructed buildings.” <ref name=IE>{{cite news|last=Patwa|first=Sharvari|title=Campa Cola architect says buyers too knew it was all illegal|url=http://m.indianexpress.com/news/campa-cola-architect-says-buyers-too-knew-it-was-all-illegal/1193685/|accessdate=13 November 2013|newspaper=Indian Express|date=12 November 2013}}</ref>
