Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 109 · Decided 12 February 2015
Kripa Mangal Karyalaya & ORS. v. Nagpur Municipal Corporation & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 109 · [2015] 1 S.C.R. 1082
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5577/2004
- Decided
- 12 February 2015
- Bench
- S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, PRAFULLA C. PANT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226
Headnote
Public Interest Litigation - Maintainability of - PIL before C High Court seeking direction to Nagpur Municipal corporation (NMC) and Nagpur Improvement Trust (NIT) to remove structures on the land owned by respondent-Trust leased out to the appellant being contrary and the development plan under Town Planning Act - High Court D allowing the petition directed demolition - Held: The PIL was not maintainable as it was not bonafide, but filed on account of personal disputes between the parties - There was also long delay of eight years in filing the same -
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