NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court has recently said a landowner couldn’t be deprived of the use of the land indefinitely.A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and R Mahadevan observed while setting aside an order of the Bombay High Court.”The landowner cannot be deprived of the use of the land for years together. Once an embargo has been put on a landowner not to use the land in a particular manner, the said restriction cannot be kept open-ended for an indefinite period,” it said.The bench, while referring to Section 127 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966, said it did not make any sense to keep the plot reserved in a development plan for the last 33 years.Not only did the authority not allow the original owners to use the land, but was also not permitting the purchasers to utilise the land now, the court said.
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