Supreme Court of India

State of Odisha & Ors. v. Bichitrananda Das

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Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and Hrishikesh Roy JJ.
Decided 18 December 2019

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, we allow the appeal and set aside the impugned judgment and order of the High Court.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Lease: Lease-hold property – Conversion to free-hold property under a policy – Conversion charges – Computation of – Relevant date – Whether would be the date when the applicant applied for conversion or the date when the final decision was taken – Held: Submission of an application does not confer a vested right of permission – The application for conversion must necessarily be consistent with and compliant to the governing provisions of the conversion policy – Without affecting the compliance, applicant did not have right to claim conversion of the land to free-hold – High Court was wrong…

Where later benches applied it

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