1340 of 1977, 141 of 1977 and 1535 of 1976.
There are four chawls companysisting of 31 one room tenements and a two storeyed building having four rooms on each floor on the plot.
K. Singhvi, Anil Gupta and Brij Bhushan, for Respondent.
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529 AND 532 OF l98O. Harish Salve, J.B. Dadachanji and D.N. Mishra for the Appellants in C.A. 529.
386, 529 532 of l98O. From the Judgment and order dated the 8th February, 198 of the Bombay High Court in Miscellaneous Petitions Nos.
1964 under an agreement of sale, they became owners thereof under an agreement of sale dated September 20, 1974.
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The ordinance which preceded the Act in the instant case was passed on November 11, 1975 while the Act was passed on December 24, 1975.
These buildings were companystructed by the petitioners between 1964 and 1970.
154 formed an Association through, which they requested the Standing Committee of Bombay Municipal Corporation to regularise the companystructions.
IN C.A. 386 OF 1980.
B. Bhasme, S.S. Khanduja and A.K. Galati for the Respondent in C.A. 529 of 1980.
The plot is assessed to number agricultural assessment and to property tax by the Bombay Municipal Corporation.
On January 8, 1975, the President of India issued another order under Article 359 1 of the Constitution suspending the right of any person to move any Court for the enforcement of any of the fundamental rights companyferred by Article 19 of the Constitution for the period during which the said two proclamations of emergency were in force.
H. Mocdala B.P. Singh and Ranjit Kumar for the Respondent in CA.
As stated earlier, the Act came into force in the Bombay Metropolitan Region with retrospective effect from November 11, 1975.
By those writ petitions, the petitioners, who are respondents herein, challenged the validity of the Maharashtra Vacant Lands Prohibition of Unauthorised occupation and Summary Eviction Act, LXVl of 1975 and the legality of certain orders passed thereunder.
The First Amendment Act was passed on August 3, 1976 while the Second Amendment Act was passed on January 25, 1977.
532 of l98O. The Judgment of the Court was delivered by CHANDRACHUD, C.J. These appeals by the State of Maharashtra arise out of a judgment dated February 8, 1980 of the High Court of Bombay in a group of writ petitions which were filed under Article 226 of the Constitution.
Dr. L.M. Singhvi, O.P. Rana, R.P. Vyas, M.N. Shroff and Abhishek Manu Singhvi for the Appellant.
Though the petitioners had obtained possession of the plot in about .
