Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 36 · Decided 6 January 2025
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai & ORS. v. Century Textiles and Industries Limited & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 36 · [2025] 1 S.C.R. 313
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6667/2023
- Decided
- 6 January 2025
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASANNA BHALACHANDRA VARALE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
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 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. Bombay Improvement Trust Transfer Act, 1925 - ss.48, 51 - Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888
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