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The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & Ors. v. Century Textiles and Industries Limited & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 1 S.C.R. 313
Bench Vikram Nath and Prasanna B. Varale JJ.
Decided 6 January 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the writ petition filed in July 1982 questioning the notification issued in January 1980 after a delay of nearly two and a half years is liable to be dismissed on the ground of laches only.

Judgment, page 42

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the appellant-Corporation was bound to convey the lease in favour of the respondent in terms of s.51 of the Bombay Improvement Trust Transfer Act, 1925; and whether writ petition filed before the High Court sufferred from delays and laches and was liable to be dismissed as the cause of action had arisen in 1955 whereas the writ petition was filed in 2016 after a delay of 61 (sixty-one) years. Headnotes† Bombay Improvement Trust Transfer Act, 1925 – ss.48, 51 – Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 – s.527 – City of the Bombay Improvement Act, 1898

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