LAWS(SC)-2000-1-68

COMMISSIONER BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Vs. S VASUDEVA

Decided On January 18, 2000
COMMISSIONER,BANGALORE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY Appellant
V/S
S.VASUDEVA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) SPECIAL leave granted.

(2.) AGGRIEVED by allotment of land to 34 persons by the Bangalore Development Authority (hereinafter referred to as the "BDA"), respondent No. 1 filed a writ petition in the Karnataka High Court challenging not only the said allotment but also some of the transfer of land which had been effected by some of the said allottees. These 34 respondents were stated to be ex-Legislators, Ex-Ministers, etc. who were members of the Legislators Housing Co-operative Society Ltd. (for short "the respondent-Society"). In the writ petition, it was averred that out of turn allotment had been given to these 34 persons and in violation of the Rules some of them had transferred the land and, therefore, that land should be resumed by the Government.

(3.) THE aforesaid judgment of the High Court and the directions issued by it have been challenged in this appeal and the connected petitions which have been filed.