Supreme Court · 1974 INSC 182 · Decided 20 September 1974
Municipality of Bhiwandi and Nizampur v. M/S. Kailash Sizing Works
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1974 INSC 182 · [1975] 2 S.C.R. 123
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2154/1968
- Decided
- 20 September 1974
- Bench
- A.N. RAY, KUTTYIL KURIEN MATHEW, V.R. KRISHNA IYER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Bombay ,District Municipal Act-S. 167-Scope of General Clauses Act.:..... "Dmtl' in good faith" meaning of. · · The. respondent had a structure beside a nallah which carries dirty water and ram water to the creek. The Government demolished a portion of. the dam upstream as l.ake was boUlld to . pass t~rough the nallah to the creek. The appellant had left unfinished the work of laymg cement slab across the nail.ah. In the rainy season the nallah over· flowed and flooded the respondent's property causing damage to it. The res· pendent alleged that on
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