Supreme Court · 1977 INSC 144 · Decided 6 May 1977
Trustees for the Improvement of Calcutta v. Chandra Sekhar Mallick & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1977 INSC 144 · [1978] 1 S.C.R. 136
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 579/1976
- Decided
- 6 May 1977
- Bench
- M. HAMEEDULLAH BEG, Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, N.L. UNTWALIA, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, P.S. KAILASAM (7-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
Calcutta llnprovement Act, 1911-Sec. 78A to 78G-Whether unconstitu- r tional-If suffers from the vice of excessive delegation-RuJes 11 to 21, if 1' ultra vires the A ct. The respondents were the owners of known as Fire Lane in the city of Calcutta. The Board of Trustees for the Jmprovement of Calcutta in exercise of the power conferred under s. 39(c) passed the neces­ sary resolution and proceeeded to frame a street scheme for the area which included Fire Lane as also the buildings
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