Supreme Court of India

Esha Ekta Apartments Co-operative Housing Society Limited and Others v. Municipal Corporation of Mumbai and Others

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Reported as [2013] 4 S.C.R. 478
Bench G.S. Singhvi and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya JJ.
Decided 27 February 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the petitioners in the transferred case have failed to make out a 8 case for directing the respondents to regularize the construction made in violation of the sanctioned plan.

Judgment, page 56

From the headnote

Urban Development - Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 - ss.44, 45, 47, 52 to 57 - Illegal and unauthorized construction made by developers/builders - Demolition order - Plea of flat buyers for regularization of construction - Held: By rejecting the prayer for regularization of the floors constructed in wanton violation of the sanctioned plan, the Deputy Chief Engineer of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation and the Appellate Authority demonstrated their determination to ensure planned development of the city - The 1966 Act does not mandate regularization of construction made

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