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IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY

ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION

WRIT PETITION (L) NO. 2537 OF 2019

Nuvoco Vistas Corporation Ltd & Anr

...Petitioners

Versus

The State of Maharashtra & Ors

...Respondents

Mr Ashish Kamat, with Mr

Ameya Gokhale & Ms Kriti Kalyani, i/b

Shardul

Amarchand Mangaldas & Co, for the Petitioners.

Mr Hemant Haryan, AGP, for the Respondent-State.

Mr Akshay Shinde, for Respondent No. 2.

Ms Rupali Adhate, for Respondent-MCGM.

CORAM: S. C. Dharmadhikari &

G. S. Patel, JJ.

DATED: 9th September 2019

PC:-

1.

The petitioner says that it has received a notice to forthwith

close down a ready-mix concrete plant.

2.

The challenge in this writ petition is to an action of the

Mumbai Metropolitan Regional Development Authority

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9th September 2019

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(‘MMRDA’), a Special Planning Authority within the meaning of

the Maharashtra Regional & Town Planning Act, 1966.

3.

The MMRDA has issued a notice, a copy of which is at

Exhibit A, and a further notice at Exhibit B dated 9th August 2019.

Both notices indicate, according to the petitioner, that the petitioner

must discontinue the operati