Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Superseded Defence NOC Circulars Cannot Revive Extinguished Rights | Bombay HC Quashes Stop Work Notice for Lack of Legal Grounding
Bombay High Court rules that rights crystallized under a superseded Ministry of Defence circular cannot be undone by its subsequent abeyance. The court quashed a stop work notice and denial of an occupation certificate, emphasizing that Defence NOC demands must be legally grounded and uniformly applied, not retroactively enforced.