Rajendrasingh Narayansingh Rathod and Another v. State of Maha., Thr. Secy., Urban Development Dept., Mumbai and Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
WP 2910 of 2024, Nagpur Bench, Bombay High Court, order dated 21/03/2025; Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act 1966, Section 44(1); Government land given/granted to Railways; Corporation as Planning Authority; implementation and enforcement of Corporation Act; State to take instructions and make statement on rights of grant and construction permissions; addition of parties, Civil Application (CAW) No.655/2025 allowed; Collector, Amravati added as Respondent No.13; Deputy Superintendent Land Records notice waived by AGP; notice returnable in three weeks; petitioner to serve remaining respondents by all permissible modes; Urban Development Department, Mantralaya; interim/procedural order, no precedent cited.
What did the court decide?
Interim directions: addition-of-parties application (CAW No.655/2025) allowed; Collector, Amravati added as Respondent No.13 with notice to the added respondents returnable in three weeks; notice waived by the learned AGP for the Deputy Superintendent Land Records and Collector Amravati; petitioner to serve the remaining respondents by all permissible modes; State to take appropriate instructions and make a statement on the rights under which the land was granted to the Railways and on any permission granted for construction thereon.