JUDGMENT

(Smt.) Ranjana Prakash Desai, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal, by grant of special leave, is directed against the judgment and order dated 19/8/2009 passed by the High Court at Calcutta dismissing the appeal filed by the appellant.

3. The appellant, which is a private limited company was entrusted by seventeen joint owners of the premises known as “Industry House” at No.10, Camac Street, Calcutta - 700 017 (for short, “the said premises”), to look after the day-to-day management and maintenance of the said premises as also to initiate proceedings for and on their behalf. The seventeen joint owners include respondents 6, 7 and 8 herein and one Pilani Investment (hereinafter referred to as “owner companies” for convenience). They are seized and possessed of certain floors of the said premises. The State of West Bengal requisitioned the said floors under the provisions of the West Bengal Premises Requisition and Control (Temporary Provision) Act, 1947 (for short, “the 1947 Act”). Under the 1947 Act, the maximum period of requisition was fixed at 25 years from the date of initial order of requisition and the State Government was obliged to release the property under requi