exchequer. Further, no person interested in such
allotment has come forward. The petitioner being a
councillor of Navi Mumbai Municipal Corporation and
former Chairman of the Standing Committee was well
aware of this allotment but he did not raise any issue
in the Corporation or with the authorities and waited
for all this time permitting the allottees to carry out
their constructions and has now come to this Court
challenging the allotments. Therefore, we are of the
opinion that this is nothing but an abuse of the
process of the Court and that too by a responsible
person like the petitioner who is the councillor and
former Chairman of the Standing Committee. There is no
explanation put forth as to why the petitioner did not
raise this issue in the Corporation or before the
authorities to stop such allotments and, therefore, he
deserves to be saddled with compensatory cost. We,
therefore, dismiss this petition with a direction that
the petitioner shall pay a sum of Rs. 1 lac each to
respondent nos. 1 to 3 and 5 to 13 within a period of
six weeks. On failure of the petitioner to pay cost as
directed, the Collector, District Thane, shall proceed
to recover the same as fine by resorting to the
provisions of the Maharashtra Land Revenue Code and on
recovering the cost disburse it to the parties as
directed by this Court after deducting his charges for
recovery of the amount from the petitioner.
