The appellants were called upon by the said order to deliver by 15th November 1976 possession of the said immovable property to the Director, Handlooms and Managing Director of U.P. State Handloom and Power loom Finance and Development Corporation Ltd., Kanpur, U.P., respon dent number 3 herein.
of lands companyprising of plot Nos.
It was next submitted that as it was a permanent purpose power of requisition under the Act would number be invoked for fructifying the said purpose and in any case such a requisition order companyld number companytinue indefinitely and hence the companytinued enforcement of the said order resulted in unreasonable exercise of power on the part of the second respondent.
yards and 7 1/3 sq.
During the writ proceedings it transpired that the said requisition order was issued with a view to seeing that the companycerned respondent Corporation companyld companystruct shops and showrooms in the land in question for exhibiting its handloom products which were manufactured by handloom weavers.
The Division Bench of the High Court was number persuaded to accept the aforesaid companytentions raised on behalf of the appellants and dismissed the writ petition.
1997 1 SCR 1056 The Judgment of the Court was delivered by B. MAJMUDAR, J. The appellants in this appeal by special leave have brought in challenge the order of a Division Bench of the High Court of Judicature at Allahabad dismissing the writ petition moved by the appellants before that Court.
36 and 36 A situated on The Mall, Kanpur in exercise of the powers of the second respondent under Section 23 of Defence and Internal Security of India Act, 1971 hereinafter referred to as the Act .
The impugned order of second respondent merely mentioned that the said order of requisition was issued as it was necessary and expedient to requisition the property in question for maintaining supplies and services essential to the life of the companymunity.
The appellants had challenged an order dated 29th October 1976 passed by the second respondent, District Magistrate cum Competent Authority, Kanpur, requisitioning 777 sq.
