The division bench of Justices M R Shah and Ravi R Tripathi was hearing a writ petition filed by six residential welfare societies of the city. The petitioners had claimed that the corporation's decision to contract door-to-door solid waste collection service was in violation of the law for handling solid waste. They said, according to a Supreme Court judgement, the local people must be made stakeholders in the door-to-door solid waste collection process.

The petitioners pleaded that the AMC already has a successful policy of engaging residential societies for door-to-door solid waste collection and there was no need to replace the system by involving private contractors.