Case Law Analysis
|Bombay High Court
Sections 297 & 299 M.C.C. Act cannot be invoked for land not constituting an existing public street | Road-widening acquisition of private factory land : Bombay HC
The Bombay High Court quashed municipal notices to acquire part of a privately owned factory for road widening. It ruled that Sections 297 and 299 of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act apply only to existing public streets, so they cannot be used to take private land that is not a street, protecting owners from unlawful acquisition.