Mumbai: Bombay HC on Tuesday stayed a recent govt resolution (GR) allowing the state to take back land that was given to an industrial estate in Kandivli 22 years ago.
Kandivali Co-op Industrial Estate Ltd challenged in HC the Oct 8 GR, saying it was devoid of reason and arbitrary. Its senior counsel, Aspi Chinoy, said before Justices A S Chandurkar and Rajesh Patil that 116 acres allotted to the society had been cancelled, with the state seeking to recover 50% of the unearned amount.Chinoy said the state cannot arbitrarily, without giving a hearing to the society, revoke its Dec 2002 GR by which the land was allotted.
The collector began a takeover of the land on Oct 10.
Issuing a notice to govt, HC said since society members were operating industrial units and the process to take back the land had begun in a week without any notice, the GR will be stayed. The GR had said the takeover was prompted by a large number of complaints on alleged misuse of the land. TNN