Neelkamal Realtors Suburban Pvt. Ltd. vs Union of India

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2017 Supreme(Bom) 1982

NARESH H.PATIL, R.G.KETKAR
Neelkamal Realtors Suburban Pvt. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
For the petitioners: Mr. Aspi Chinoy, Senior Counsel a/w. Mohd. Himayutullah, Ms. Rujuta, Patil and Ms. Niyathi Kalra i/b. Negandhi Shah & Himayatullah, in Dr. Veerendra Tulzapurkar, Senior Counsel a/w. Nikhil Sakhardande & Suraj Iyer i/b. Ganesh and Co., Mr. Girish Godbole,Senior Counsel a/w. Ms. Rujata Patil & Ms. Niyathi Kalra i/b. Negandhi Shah & Himayatullah, Mr. S.U. Kamdar, Senior Counsel a/w. Chirag Kamdar, Dhawal Mehta, Ms. Swapnil Khatri, Krishna Moorthy, Abir Patel, K. Vasania & Ms. Aditi Khanna i/b. Wadia Ghandy & Co., Mr. Prakash Randive a/w. Ashwini Kathane, Mr. Nikhil Sakhardande a/w. Pralhad Paranjpe i/b. A.A. Naik, Ms. Rujuta Patil and Ms. Niyathi Kalra i/b. Negandhi Shah & Himayatullah, Mr. Siraz Rustomjee, Senior Counsel a/w. Trushar Bhavsar, Ranbir Singh, Mr. Jarin Doshi i/b. Malvi Ranchoddas & Co., Mr. Tanveer Nizam a/w. Mrs. Mariam Nizam i/b. Altaf Khan
For the Respondents:Mr. Anil C. Singh, Additional Solicitor General a/w. Amogh Singh, Kapil Moye, Vijay Killedar, Vaibhav Sugdare, Aditya Thakkar, D.P. Singh, Ms. Indrayani Deshmukh, Ms. Geetika Gandhi, V.T. Kalyan, Sandesh Patil and Nagendra Goel, Ms. Tamanna Naik, Union of India, Mr. Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, Advocate General a/w. Shardul Singh i/by Mrs. Sushma Singh, Mr. Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, Advocate General i/by Mr. Amit Borkar, Advocate General i/by Mr. Akshay Shinde
For the State in all Petitions :Mr. Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, Advocate General a/w. Ms. G.R. Shastri, Addl. Govt. Pleader a/w Shardul Singh & Akshay Shinde
Mr. Darius Khambata, Senior Counsel appointed as Amicus Curiae with Ms. Naira Jejeebhoy and Pheroze Mehta

JUDGMENT :

Naresh H. Patil, J.

1. Rule. Rule made returnable forthwith. Heard finally.

2. The Apex Court by an order dated 4th September, 2017, in Transfer Petition (Civil) Nos. 1448 – 1456 of 2017, passed following order:-

“For the present we feel that it would be appropriate to direct the High Court of Judicature at Bombay to take up the matters i.e. W.P. (L) Nos. 1967, 2010, 2011, 2023, 1965, 2034, 4419, 4692 and 19157 of 2017 along with other connected matters, if any, pending in the High Court, together.

We request the Chief Justice of the High Court of Bombay to assign the cases to a particular Bench for expeditious decisions of the matters. Let matters be decided with two months.

Consequently the Transfer Petitions are disposed of.”

3. In this batch of Writ Petitions, petitioners had challenged legality and constitutional validity of certain provisions of the Real Estate (Regulation and Development) Act, 2016 (for short “the RERA”) as being violative of the provisions of Articles 14, 19(1)(g), 20 and 300-A of the Constitution of India. The petitioners prayed for a declaration that the first proviso to Section 3 (1), Section 3 (2)(a) & (c), Explanation to Section 3, Sections 4(2)(c)

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2017 Supreme(Bom) 1982

NARESH H.PATIL, R.G.KETKARNeelkamal Realtors Suburban Pvt. Ltd. – AppellantVersusUnion of India – Respondent

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NARESH H.PATIL, R.G.KETKAR
Neelkamal Realtors Suburban Pvt. Ltd. – Appellant
Versus
Union of India – Respondent