JOYDEEP MUKHARJEE Vs. STATE OF WEST BENGAL

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Petitioner, who claims to be a public spirited person from the State of West Bengal and a member of the All India Legal Aid Forum, which is an organisation stated to be working for upliftment of the downtrodden, has filed the present Public Interest Litigation claiming the following relief:

(2.) Above prayers are claimed on the averment that even after pronouncement of judgment of this Court in Dipak K. Ghosh v. State of West Bengal, 2006 3 SCC 765, there has been violation of the original Master Plan of the Salt Lake City against which several demonstrations were taken out. The Petitioner also submits that the issues raised in Writ Petition No. 7553 filed in the Calcutta High Court have not been settled by that Court or even by this Court. In his submissions, these issues require consideration being questions of great importance.

(3.) According to the Petitioner, the Salt Lake City was the result of dream of the late Chief Minister Dr. B.C. Roy of establishing a new township for the lower and middle income groups on the eastern side of Calcutta (now Kolkata) and the land to be used for that purpose was the reclaimed land of the Salt Lake. In the year 1967, a Master Plan was prepared under the Government instructions and the Government was expected to develop the area in accordance with that Master Plan which had, inter alia, made the following provisions: