Supreme Court of India

The State of Maharashtra and Anr. v. The Jalgaon Municipal Council and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] 1 S.C.R. 1112
Bench R.C. Lahoti and Brijesh Kumar JJ.
Decided 14 February 2003

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons we are of the opinion that the judgment of the High Court cannot be sustained on any of the grounds upheld by it.

Judgment, page 37

From the headnote

Municipalities: . Maharashtra Municipal Council Nagar Panchayat and Industrial Township Act, 1965(Bombay Provincial Municipal Corporation Act, 1949: Sections 2, 3 and ·613-Conversion of Municipal Council to Municipal ·Corporation. Hiatus between-Whether violative of Part IX of Constitution-Held, since hiatus between abolition of Municipal Council and constitution of Municipal Corporation is an unavoidable event which must take place in conversion thus not violative of Constitution-Constitution of India, 1950 Part IX . Conversion notification on publishing of provisional population total

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 distinguished · 3 referred to

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