Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 361 · Decided 6 May 2014
Union of India & ANR. v. Dinshaw Shapoorji Anklesari & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 361 · [2014] 5 S.C.R. 1073
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 6194/2013
- Decided
- 6 May 2014
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, S. J. MUKHOPADHAYA, KURIAN JOSEPH (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC; Transfer of Property Act; Specific Relief Act
Headnote
Government Grants Act, 1895: ss. 2, 3 - Government Grant lands - Applicability of Transfer of Property Act - Held: Transfer of Property Act is A B c not applicable to Government Grant lands - Further; ·s.3 makes it clear that Government Grants is to take effect according notwithstanding any rule of law, statute 0 or enactment of the legislature to the contrary - Therefore, the Government has unfettered discretion and u/s.3 can impose any condition, limitation or restriction in its grants and the rights, privileges and obligations of the grantee would be regulated
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