Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
MRTP Act Sections 49, 126, 127 | Long-Term Land Reservation Without Acquisition Violates Right to Property; Statutory Process Cannot Be Bypassed by Writ: Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court ruled that indefinite reservation of private land under the MRTP Act, without initiating formal acquisition under Sections 49, 126, and 127, amounts to an unconstitutional deprivation of property rights. Authorities cannot rely on administrative delay or changed land use plans to avoid statutory acquisition - this decision binds all municipal bodies holding land in legal limbo for over four decades.