In the year 1947, after independence, this companypany was taken over by the Government of India giving birth to Overseas Communication Service a Department of the Government of India and the lands were transferred in the name of the President of India.
Brief facts which are necessary to dispose of these appeals are recapitulated as under The land measuring about 774 acres was acquired by the Government of Bombay for Indian Radio Telegraph Company, in the year 1925.
These appeals are directed against an interim order dated 20th January, 2010 passed by the Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Bombay in Public Interest Litigation No.109 of 2008 and Writ Petition No.9163/2009.
It may be pertinent to mention here that when this petition earlier came up for hearing before a Division Bench of the High Court on 22.7.2009, following order was passed Heard.
After a delay of about 85 years, a public interest litigation was filed in the Bombay High Court.
The land has been in use and possession of the appellants and their predecessors for the last 85 years.
In the year 1986, it was transferred to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Ltd. VSNL , a wholly owned Government of India undertaking to whom all assets and liabilities of Overseas Communication Service were transferred.
Leave granted.
