A person cannot feed birds from a balcony of a flat, creating nuisance due to droppings and filth for other occupants in a residential society, the Supreme Court has said. The top court refused to interfere with an order restraining a woman from feeding birds from her balcony flat in a highrise building in Worli .

"If you are living in a residential society, you have to conduct yourself, according to the norms," said a bench of Justices U U Lalit and Indu Malhotra.

Counsel for the petitioner, Jigeesha Thakore, said it was not a case of nuisance, but of strained business ties between the two parties due to which a civil suit was filed against her in a lower court. The bench said in a recent order that the Bombay City Civil Court on September 27, 2013, had granted interim injunction by which it had restrained the woman from feeding the birds from the balcony of her flat.

It noted that when the civil court order was challenged by the woman in high court, it had refused to interfere. "In the circumstances, we see no reason to interfere in the matter. The special leave petitions are dismissed," the bench said while directing the civil court to dispose of the pending suit.

