Dismissed¶23

Ramniklal Dhanji Chhadva v. the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Th. Municipal Commissioner

Bombay HC29 Jan 2025WP/2148/2024

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What is this about?

Short final order of the Bombay High Court (OOJC) dated 03-04-2025 (Gadkari & Khata, JJ.), WP No. 2148 of 2024, Ramniklal Dhanji Chhadva v. Municipal Corporation of Gr. Mumbai & Ors. Search terms: locus standi; easementary right; Pipe Road; Public Road declaration; BMC Resolution No. 412 dated 12-07-2023; lease of plot No. 602B; writ petition dismissed in limine; interim application disposed; petition against municipal road resolution rejected for want of legal right.

What did the court decide?

None. Writ Petition No. 2148 of 2024 dismissed in limine as thoroughly misconceived; Interim Application (L.) No. 5337 of 2025 held not to survive and disposed of. ¶23

Ramniklal Dhanji Chhadva vs the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Th. Municipal Commissioner — Bombay HC (2025) — LawSathi Research

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Outcome

None. Writ Petition No. 2148 of 2024 dismissed in limine as thoroughly misconceived; Interim Application (L.) No. 5337 of 2025 held not to survive and disposed of.

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Issue for consideration

Whether the Petitioner, who holds at best an easementary right over the Corporation-owned road in dispute, has locus standi / any legal right to object to the declaration of the said road as Pipe Road or Public Road under the impugned Resolution No. 412 dated 12th July 2023.

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Ratio / Principle

The road in dispute, as stated in the impugned Resolution No. 412 dated 12th July 2023, is admittedly owned by the Corporation (Municipal Corporation of Gr. Mumbai).

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Key takeaways

Except for having an easementary right to use the said road, the Petitioner has no legal right to object to its declaration as Pipe Road or as a Public Road, for the benefit of the public at large.ratio¶17
The Petitioner has no locus standi to question the said Resolution; he has already developed his plot of land bearing No. 602B, which was given to him on lease by the Corporation, i.e. the owner of the said plot.ratio¶18
The present Petition is thoroughly misconceived and is dismissed in limine; consequently Interim Application (L.) No. 5337 of 2025 does not survive and is also disposed of.

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Bombay High Court (Ordinary Original Civil Jurisdiction), Writ Petition No. 2148 of 2024 with Interim Application (L.) No. 5337 of 2025, decided 3 April 2025 by A. S. Gadkari and Kamal Khata, JJ. The Petitioner, Ramniklal Dhanji Chhadva, a lessee of the Corporation of plot No. 602B (already developed by him), challenged the impugned Resolution No. 412 dated 12th July 2023 concerning the road in dispute and its declaration as Pipe Road / Public Road. Holding: the road is admittedly owned by the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai; the Petitioner, save for an easementary right to use the road, had no legal right to object to the declaration made for the benefit of the public at large; and, having already developed his leased plot, he had no locus standi to question the Resolution. Deeming the Petition thoroughly misconceived, the Court dismissed it in limine; the accompanying Interim Application did not survive and stood disposed of.

Ramniklal Dhanji Chhadva v. the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai Th. Municipal Commissioner

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