Supreme Court of India

Rikhabsao Nathusao Jain v. Corpn. of the City of Nagpur & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 14 S.C.R. 1091
Bench S.B. Sinha and Cyriac Joseph JJ.
Decided 22 October 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the impugned judg- .. 4._ ment cannot be sustained and is set aside accordingly.

Judgment, page 23

From the headnote

i City of Nagpur Corporation Act, 1948: s.286(5) - Juris- diction of District Judge - Respondent no.2 did not file any application seeking direction upon Corporation to consider c his application for grant of sanction of building plan - District Judge passed the order suo moto - Held: District Judge does not have inherent power to grant mandatory injunction and that too suo moto - Case remitted to District Judge to recon- sider the matter afresh. ~. Respondent no.2 and appellant are neighbours. Re- :-- spondent no.2 allegedly submitted a plan for construe- tion of a building. It was not

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