property law

In a rare gesture, the Supreme Court on Sunday restrained the Kottayam Municipality in Kerala from demolishing about 21 houses located in the post office road. A vacation Bench of Justices C K Thakker and L S Panta held an emergency sitting to pass the order on a writ petition filed by the aggrieved residents. According to the petitioners, the Municipal authority had planned to demolish th..

SC asks Tata, WB govt to file reply on Singur land acquisition The Supreme Court on Tuesday sought reply from Tata Motors, the West Bengal government and others as to why 'fertile multi-crop agricultural land' was acquired for the company's small-car project at Singur. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan while issuing notice to the company, the state government and the ..

SC slams AP govt on sale of huge wakf land The Supreme Court has pulled up the Andhra Pradesh govt for allowing the managing committee members ("mujavars") of the State Wakf Board to "unauthorisedly" sell huge tracts of wakf land to a private housing society and others. A bench of Justices S B Sinha and L S Panta in its judgement asked the state government to conduct an..

Landlords can seek eviction of shop tenants: SC New Delhi, Apr 18 (UNI) The Supreme Court has held that even the landlord of a commercial property in Delhi can seek the eviction of the tenant on the ground of bona fide requirement. The Supreme Court in a landmark judgement ruled that section 14 (1)(e) of Delhi Rent Control Act, 1958 (DRCA) is also applicable to tenants, runni..

The National Capital Territory of Delhi Laws (Special Provisions) Act, 2007 was published for general information on 5.12.2007. The Act provided for maintaining status quo in respect of unauthorized development in the form of encroachment by slum dwellers and jhuggi-jhompri clusters, hawkers and urban street vendors, unauthorized colonies, village abadi area and its extension, existing farm houses..

As per Entry 5 of the State List in the 7th Schedule of the Constitution of India, "Local Government" is a State subject. The regulation of activities of property developers and builders comes under the purview of State Governments, Urban Local Bodies/ Development Authorities under the provisions of State Town & Country Planning/ City Development Authority Acts. However, the Government is consider..

A tenant occupying a commercial premises is no different than the one who lives in a rented house and can be evicted by the landlord under the Delhi Rent Control Act, the Supreme Court has ruled. The judgement, which may pave the way for reducing property dispute-related litigation, assumes significance as until now only a tenant occupying residential premises could be evicted by the landlord..

The Supreme Court will hear a petition on Tuesday challenging the Calcutta High Court's decision that held as legal, the acquisition of land by West Bengal government for Tata Motors' small-car project at Singur. The petition is likely to come up before a bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan. The petition filed by Kedar Nath Yadav, a practising lawyer, has sought immediate halt..

The International Bench and Bar Association has filed a PIL in the Supreme Court seeking judicial guidelines for entertaining pleas against projects of national importance costing over Rs 100 crore. Association head Ravi Prakash Gupta submitted that execution of these projects was being delayed deliberately by vested interests, including those from abroad, through pleas filed on the pretext o..

The Supreme Court has cleared the decks for UP govt to organise the birth centenary celebrations of Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar on 14th April in a Lucknow park on the condition that no permanent construction shall be carried out in it. The apex court on Tuesday said there should not be any "hindrance" in holding the Ambedkar Jayanti function and temporary construction and renovation could be carried..

Rani Mukherjee moves HC Aurangabad, Maharashtra, Apr 4 (UNI) Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee today filed a petition before the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court, challenging the order of Shrirampur sub-divisional officer (SDO) to cancel her right on a land near the pilgrim town of Shirdi. Rani's father Ram Mukherjee filed the petition on her behalf, challenging valid..

Bollywood actress Rani Mukherjee filed a petition in the Bombay High Court on Friday challenging the Ahmednagar District Collector's order cancelling her ownership of a plot near Shirdi due to irregularities in the deal. The petition filed before the Aurangabad bench of the Bombay High Court will come up for hearing on 9th April. "There are several discrepancies in the order passed by the..

The Supreme Court today stayed the construction of a parking lot at Siri Fort Sports Complex as part of preparations for the Commonwealth Games 2010 on a plea filed by a morning walker who objected to the felling of trees for the project. A bench headed by Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan while asking the authorities to consider an alternative site for the parking lot ordered status quo till fu..

Govt can't arbitrarily restrict land use by its owner: SC The Supreme Court has said the Government cannot arbitrarily restrict the use of a land by its owner as it would severely curtail his right to possess property. "The power to restrict the use of land by the owners thereof is a drastic power. The designation or reservation of the land and its use results in severe abridgment ..

SC refuses to order probe against Bachchan in Barabanki case The Supreme court on Monday refused to order investigation into the controversy involving Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan in the Barabanki land deal case in Uttar Pradesh. The apex court dismissed the petition filed by UP government challenging the Allahabad High Court's order restraining it from initiating any criminal, ..