ARVIND KUMAR DHANUKA Vs. BOARD OF TRUSTEES

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The petitioner is an unemployed Commerce Graduate who intends to start a new business on a plot of land which is the subject-matter of this application. The matter arises in the following manner.

(2.) At all material times prior to February, 1975, the port of Calcutta was governed by the Calcutta Port Act, 1890. However with effect from the 1st February, 1975, the port of Calcutta came to be governed by the Major Port Trusts Act, 1963 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). By virtue of Section 133 (2B) of the Act all the provisions with which we are concerned in this application came to be applicable to the port of Calcutta and the old Act of 1890 ceased to be applicable. Sections 49 and 52 of the Act with which we are concerned and in so far as is material for our purpose may be set out herein below;

(3.) Pursuant to the said notice dated 8th November, 1976 the respondent No. 1 through its Land Manager issued a circular in cyclostyled form inviting sealed offers for lease of various plots Including the plot No. 17 in Sonapur Road measuring an approximate area of 788.747 sq. metres. In the circular, a sum of Rs. 50 was mentioned as the reserved rent per 100 sq. metres for the same offer.