Supreme Court of India

Ghaziabad Development Authority v. Ved Prakash Aggarwal

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Reported as [2008] 8 S.C.R. 676
Bench Tarun Chatterjee and Harjit Singh Bedi JJ.
Decided 14 May 2008

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the MRTP Commission was clearly in error in directing the GOA to handover possession to the re- c spondent.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices Act, 1969 - s.36 - Unfair trade practice - Complainant's case that land c allotted to trim by Ghaziabad Development Authority under the Scheme and after many years cancelled arbitrarily_- Com- plaint alleging unfair trade practice against GOA - Allowed by MRTP Commission and GOA directed to allot alternate plot to complainant at the price fixed - Held: Complainant was successful in draw of lots, thus, act of GOA amounted to unfair trade practice - However, MRTP Commission has no Juris- diction to direct GOA to hand over possession of vacant plot to

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