Supreme Court of India
M.P. Mathur and Ors. v. D.T.C. and Ors.
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that OTC which is a public sector D undertaking had to act in public interest in the sense that had to keep the transport service running for which they had to accommodate in-service industrial workers which they could not have done if it had to sell the existing service quarters to the retirees.
Judgment, page 15
From the headnote
Doctrine of promissory estoppel-Tenements constructed by Government under Scheme for Industrial Workers and Economically Weaker Sections of the Community-Scheme amended allowing transfer of allotted houses on ownership basis to occupants-Government corporation passing resolution for transfer of allotted houses on ownership basis to occupants-Occupants already retired from service-Corporation having only 480 tenements to accommodate 254 industrial workers-Resolution not communicated to occupants-Sale consideration not fIXed-Occupants never called upon to make any payment-Corporation
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Where later benches applied it
- 2020 Ambalal Sarabhai Enterprise Limited v. Ks Infraspace Llp Limited and Another
- 2014 Rishi Kiran Logistics Pvt. Ltd. v. Board of Trustees of Kandla Port Trust & Ors.
- 2012 Monnet Ispat & Energy Ltd. v. Union of India and Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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