JUDGMENT

M.H.KANIA, J.

(1) THIS special leave petition is directed against the judgment of a division bench of the Bombay High court in Writ Petition No. 4497 of 1990. The High court allowed the said writ petition and struck down a communication from the Bombay Municipal Corporation, respondent 2 herein, informing the petitioners in the said writ petition, who are arrayed as respondents 3 to 18 before us, that their application for permission to develop the property, namely, the land in question situated at Village Balkum near Thane, was rejected in view of the representations submitted to the government by the owners of chemical factories situated in the said village, who are the appellants/petitioners herein that no building construction permission should be granted within certain distance from the said factories. The petitioners in the special leave petition are some of the said chemical factories. They were not joined in the writ petition as respondents and have prayed for leave to file the special leave petition on the ground that the judgment adversely affects them and they are aggrieved by the same.

(2) PERMISSION is granted. Leave is granted. Cou