Supreme Court of India
Sushanta Tagore and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
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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
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors
- 2011 Union of India & Anr. v. Arulmozhi -iniarasu & Ors.
- 2007 Kurmanchal Institute of Degree & Diploma and Ors. v. Chancellor, M.J.P. Rohilkhand University and Ors.
Of those, 2 referred to · 1 mentioned
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