Mumbai, Jan 9 (Reporter) The Bombay High Court on Tuesday allowed the Kala Ghoda Association (KGA) to hold certain visual arts events and other performances at Cross Maidan in South Mumbai as part of Mumbai's famous annual Kala Ghoda Arts Festival which is from January 20 to January 28 with conditions which includes the commercial activities during festival. A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Kamal Khata passed the order while hearing an application filed by the KGA seeking direction to the BMC and authorities to grant it permission to hold certain performances at the Cross Maidan at Churchgate. The application was filed in connection to a petition filed by the Organisation for Verdant Ambience and Land (OVAL), a public trust, in 2018, challenging the commercial use of the ground. It had challenged a November 6, 2017 government resolution (GR) that transferred the authority of maintaining Cross Maidan from the Mumbai city district collector to the BMC. The court has also clarified that henceforth the authorities will directly grant such permission to KGA, with strict insistence and compliance of condition, and it does not need to approach the high court...////...