2025 INSC 1236 REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2025 (ARISING OUT OF SLP (C) NO.18305 OF 2023)

PRADYUMNA MUKUND KOKIL … APPELLANT(S)

VERSUS NASHIK MUNICIPAL CORPORATION AND OTHERS …RESPONDENT(S)

J U D G M E N T

AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH, J.

1. Leave granted.

2. This appeal arises from a long-standing dispute concerning land situated at Survey No. 8/1, Village Deolali, District Nashik, measuring 1 hectare and 38 Ares (13,800 sq. meters). By Resolution No. 14 dated 03.05.1972, the Nashik Road-Deolali Municipal Council (now Nashik Municipal Corporation) resolved to reserve the entire above-mentioned parcel of land r D a a s t h e m : 2 i 0 d 2 h 5 ya .1 n 0 i . p 1 a 5 nt for a high school, playground, and development plan Reason:

(DP) roads under the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 (“MRTP Act”). On 22.06.1972, the Municipal Council took possession of 37 Ares (3,700 sq. meters) from Survey No. 8/1 for public use, albeit without recourse to the formal acquisition process prescribed under the Land Acquisition Act, 1894. Subsequently, a notification under Section 126(2) of the MRTP Act read with Section 6 of the Land Acquis