Supreme Court of India

Municipal Corporation of Greater Bombay v. The Industrial Development and Investment Co. Pvt. Ltd and Ors.

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 551

Bench K. Ramaswamy and S.B. Majmudar JJ.

Decided 6 September 1996

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Land Acquisition : Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966: Section 125, 126 and 128. Public purpose-Acquisition of land--Change in purpose of land user-Effect of-Held : acquisition must have direct connection with public purpose for which land was reserved or eannarked-/f public purpose ceased to exist, land got dereserved and acquisition under under S.126 became incompetent-{n such an event fresh notification under S.126 was neces sary-/nterested person should be vigilant and watchful to seek judicial review under Article 226 before acquisition became final and land vested in

Authorities it was built on

1990 State of Maharashtra v. Mahadeo Deoman Rai Alias Kalal and Others cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

2020 Indore Development Authority v. Manoharlal & Ors. Etc. relied on
2013 M/s Mutha Associates and Ors. v. State of Maharashtra and Ors. relied on
2011 Banda Development Authority, Banda v. Moti Lal Agarwal and Others relied on
2025 The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Ors. v. Century Textiles and Industries Limited & Ors. referred to
2017 Kolkata Metropolitan Development Authority v. Pradip Kumar Ghosh & Others referred to
2017 M/s. Meena Devi Jindal Medical Institute & Research Centre v. Lt. Governor, Delhi & Ors. referred to
2012 Patasi Devi v. State of Haryana & Ors. referred to
2012 Bangalore City Cooperative Housing Society Ltd. v. State of Karnataka and Others referred to
2011 Raghbir Singh Sehrawat v. State of Haryana and Others referred to
2013 Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd. v. Vemuganti Ramakrishan Rao & Ors. mentioned

Of those, 3 relied on · 6 referred to · 1 mentioned

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