Judgment

SHARMA, J:- This appeal by special leave arises out of a suit filed by the respondent in representative capacity for permanent injunction against the appellant Tamil Nadu Housing Board from demanding and collecting from the allottees any additional amount for settlement of lands with buildings in the colony Ashok Nagar fully described in the plaint.

2. In pursuance of a Housing Scheme the appellant-Board proceeded to settle a large number of residential plots to different groups of applicants including one described as low-income group. A number of allottees, including the plaintiff-respondent, were selected and settlement in their favour was made in 1963. A copy of the document executed separately in respect to the plots is on the record of this case as Exht. B-3, setting out the terms and conditions of the lease. The term as mentioned in the 15th clause, which quoted below, has been referred to by the parties in support of their respective cases:

"15. The lessor agrees to sell the property more particularly described in the schedule hereunder to the lessee for such price as the Administrative Officer of the lessor may at any time in his sole discretion fix, and at which tim