Supreme Court of India

Humanity and Anr. v. State of West Bengal and Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 8 S.C.R. 653
Bench G.S. Singhvi and Asok Kumar Ganguly JJ.
Decided 26 May 2011

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In view of the aforesaid legal principle, the question is whether the impugned order of the Government vide allotment letter dated 17.2.2009 allotting a plot of 63.04 kathas of land H in a prime area in Salt Lake City is an allotment which is different • • HUMANITY AND ANR. v.

Judgment, page 18

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Administrative Law - Government action - Allotment of land by State Government, without open advertisement and public offer - Challenge to - The State Government issued advertisement for allotment of land for setting up of an intergrated /CSE affiliated school to which 'SG', a cricketer of qreat repute, responded - Committee of Government Officials considered all the applications and decided to allot the land in favour of 'SG' - Subsequently, 'SG', the al/ottee, o wrote a letter to the State Government stating that after going through the norms of '/CSE' norms he felt that allotment of a

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