Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 96 · Decided 26 March 1971
Sahodara Devi & ORS. v. Government of India & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 96 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 230
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2246/1969
- Decided
- 26 March 1971
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, I.D. DUA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226, 133(1)(b)
Headnote
G H SAHODARA DEVI & ORS. v. GOVERNMENT OF INDIA & ANR. March 26, 1971. (J. M. SHELAT, I. D. DUA AND V. BHARGAVA, JJ.) Cantonment Land Administration Rules, 1937, r. 21-Power under rule to grant lease whether discretionary-Use of word 'May', effect of. The appellant filed a petition under in a cantonment area, on o.ccupancy land held on 'old grants lease'. The single Judge directed the respondents to execute the lease but the Division Bench held that the power to grant a lease under r. 27 was dis­ cretionary. The Division Bench therefore set aside the o.rders of the single
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