Supreme Court of India

National Textile Corporation (mn) Ltd. v. M/s Durga Trading Co. and Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 3 S.C.R. 162
Bench Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya and C Prafulla C. Pant JJ.
Decided 17 February 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the Division Bench of the High Court failed to analyze the provisions correctly and wrongly presumed that the property in question has been H 182 SUPREME COURT REPORTS (2015) 3 S.C.R. A sold to the Textile Undertaking prior to the commencement of 1983 Act.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Public Premises (Eviction of unauthorized Occupants) Act, 1971: ss. 4 and 7 - Agreement to sell entered into between respondent no. 1 and erstwhile owner of Textile Undertaking in 1975 -Agreement contained clauses which mandated the execution of registered sale-deed or conveyance deed within three years - However, the same • was never done - In 1983, management of textile undertaking of erstwhile owner taken over by the central Government under the 1983 Act and thereafter vested in Central Government under the 1995 Act - Subject premises declared Public Premises and notices issued to

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