Supreme Court · 1989 INSC 144 · Decided 27 April 1989
Dwarkadas Marfatia & Sons v. Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1989 INSC 144 · [1989] 2 S.C.R. 751
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2036/1987
- Decided
- 27 April 1989
- Bench
- SABYASACHI MUKHERJI, M.H. KANIA, S. RANGANATHAN (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 12, 14, 32, 22, 227; Rent Control Act
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 12, 14, 32 and 22~ 'Bqmbay Port Trust'-Whether 'State'-Evicting its tenant and granting the land in question to another tenant-Frontiers of judicial revie1t of such action. The respondent Board of Trustees of the Port of Bombay is a statutory authority, and as operation A B c of the .. Bombay Rents, Hotel & Lodging House Rates (Control) Act, 1947. The appellant has been the lessee of the respondent since about 1932 in respect of part of the original plot No. 4 (now plot SB) which D adjoins plot No. 6 tenanted by M/s Bombay Bharat & Swadeshi
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