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(Delivered on this 14

^th day of June, 2022 )

Regard being had to the similitude in the controversy

involved in the present cases, with the joint request of the

parties, these matters are heard finally and are being decided by

this common order.

This is the third round of litigation before this Court

regarding the challenge to the widening work. The State

Government published a draft Master Plan for Indore City, 1991

in which 80 feet wide link Road was proposed from A.B. Road

to Ring Road via and Saket Nagar (in short- “the Road”). The 80

feet wide Road from A.B. Road to the house of Jankilal Bhaiya

had already been constructed. Thereafter, Indore Master Plan,

2021 came into force w.e.f. 01.01.2008 in which the width of the

road has been reduced to 40 feet Since there was a delay in the

construction of the second part of the 80 feet wide Road from

the house of Jankilal Bhaiya to Ring Road by Indore Municipal

Corporation, a Writ Petition in the nature of Public Interest

Litigation i.e. W.P. No.698 of 2002 (PIL) came to be filed before

this Court. The petitioner being an association of residents of the

locality alleged that the Indore Municipal Corporation and Town

& Country Planning