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In October past year, the precocious tribunal had ordered authorities to support presumption quo and not to alteration the quality of the said 15-acre land. (Express Photo)
The authorities authorities connected Friday informed the Bombay High Court that it is considering to attack the Central authorities to resoluteness its quality implicit the brackish cookware land, including the 15-hectare onshore successful Kanjurmarg, which was transferred to MMRDA for operation of the Metro 6 (Swami Samarth Nagar-Jogeshwari-Vikhroli-Kanjurmarg) depot successful 2023.
A seat of Chief Justice Alok Aradhe and Justice Bharati H Dangre was proceeding a plea by the cardinal government, filed done the lawman brackish commissioner, that challenged the April 17, 2023, bid issued by Mumbai Suburban District Collector to transportation the brackish cookware onshore to Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA).
Advocate General Birendra Saraf, representing the authorities government, told the seat that the substance involves quality betwixt the Centre and state, truthful clip beryllium granted to amicably resoluteness the same.
The tribunal granted the said clip and posting the adjacent proceeding aft six weeks, granted liberty to the parties to attack the precocious tribunal successful lawsuit quality is amicably resolved. The tribunal continued the interim status-quo bid till the adjacent date.
In October past year, the precocious tribunal had ordered authorities to support presumption quo and not to alteration the quality of the said 15-acre land.
The cardinal authorities had said that the impugned 2023 bid that transferred the brackish cookware onshore vested with its lawman brackish commissioner was arbitrary. It had claimed that the authorities authorities and MMRDA were acting successful collusion to “evade outgo of marketplace worth of the land” which they would person been required to wage to get the onshore transferred from the Centre to the state.
On October 24, 2024, the HC seat led by past Chief Justice (CJ) Devendra Kumar Upadhyaya (now Delhi precocious tribunal CJ), portion ordering status-quo, had said that it was a ‘rare occasion’ erstwhile the Centre moved precocious tribunal against the authorities government’s collector’s order. “Ordinarily, specified disputes should not scope the courts. However, instant substance appears to carnivore a checkered history,” the seat had added.
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It referred to earlier bid of precocious tribunal successful different plea by Centre, successful which the seat led by past Chief Justice Dipankar Datta (now Supreme Court judge) had stayed the cognition of the collector’s October 1, 2020 order, passed nether the MVA authorities led by Uddhav Thackeray, that transferred 102-acres of onshore to the MMRDA to physique a Metro- 3 car shed.
However, aft the erstwhile Mahayuti authorities led by Chief Minister Eknath Shinde took over, the court—in August 2022—was informed that the October 1, 2020, bid had been withdrawn and the car shed was shifted to Aarey colony, and the pleas challenging the aforesaid were disposed of.
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