Supreme Court of India

Sushanta Tagore and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2005] 2 S.C.R. 502
Bench N. Santosh Hegde and S.B. Sinha JJ.
Decided 3 March 2005

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the Bengal Ambuja Housing Complex will, to that extent, change the topography of Santiniketan in the canal front but that there is no public interest which calls for restraint of such a change.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Visva Bhardti Act, 1951-Sections 5, 6 and 7 and II Schedule­ Construction of residential and Commercial Complexes within Shantiniketan- Public Interest Litigation challenging the construction-Only a portion of the " Scheduled area acquired by University-Direction of Pollution Control Board for preservation of ambience of University for cultural, historical, archaeological, environmental and ecologicalpurposes-~High Court dismissed the PIL on the grounds that University was not the owner of entire 3000 acres of land and that allowing Shantiniketan in its original form would be impractical-On

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