Supreme Court of India
Bombay Hawkers' Union and Ors. v. Bombay Municipal Corporation and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we direct that the Municipal Commissioner will proceed to frame the final Scheme on the lines suggested above, as expeditiously e.s possible.
Judgment, page 13
From the headnote
Bombay Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 sections 313, 313- , 314(3) and 497, whether violative of Article 19(/) (g) of the Constitution-Right to carry on trade, business or calling by hawkers on footpaths and on pubiic streets-Merits and feasibility of a scheme for the licencing of hawkers in Greater Bott1bay by cr<ating hawking zones by the Municipal Commissioner, dated 23 Noverr;ber, 1983-Modalities to be adopted for the purpose of hawking and non-hawking zgnes. There are about 1,S0,000 hawkers in the city of Bombay, one sixth of them being women. Broadly, there are three types of
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