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Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965

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SHIVAMMA YALLAPPA POTENAVARUversusTHE DISTRICT COLLECTOR, SOLAPUR

Disposed Off

Shivamma Yallappa Potenavaru filed a writ petition seeking to quash a government resolution that declared Anjali Yoginath Bajaramath as President of Maindargi Municipal Council following the 2025 municipal election. The petitioner argued the election was invalid, while the respondent argued that …

SUDHIR VILAS KALEL & ORS.versusBAPU RAJARAM KALEL & ORS.

2024 INSC 90Dismissed

The case concerned Sudhir Vilas Kalel (Appellant No.1), who was elected to a reserved OBC seat in Jambulani Gram Panchayat but failed to obtain a Validity Certificate for his caste certificate within the statutory twelve‑month period, leading to his automatic disqualification. He later obtained the …

BAITULLA ISMAIL SHAIKH AND ANR.versusKHATIJA ISMAIL PANHALKAR AND ORS.

2024 INSC 71Dismissed

The appellants, who bought a building in 1992, sought to evict two tenants after a municipal demolition notice was issued in 2002, invoking sections of the Maharashtra Rent Control Act, 1999 relating to bona‑fide need, demolition and rent default. The trial and appellate courts granted eviction …

BENEDICT DENIS KINNYversusTULIP BRIAN MIRANDA & ORS.

2020 INSC 320Dismissed

The appellants challenged High Court orders that allowed elected councillors, whose caste validity certificates were rejected by the Caste Scrutiny Committee, to retain their seats pending judicial review. Section 5B of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act provides that failure to submit a caste …

SAYYED RATANBHAI SAYEED (D) TH. LRS. & ORS.versusSHIRDI NAGAR PANCHAYAT & ANR.

2016 INSC 197Dismissed

The appellants, small‑scale shopkeepers near the Shirdi Sai Baba shrine, had a 1979 compromise decree granting them rehabilitation on their occupied plots. Subsequent town‑planning, development‑plan and highway‑control‑line notifications rendered the decree practically impossible to execute, …

RAVI YASHWANTversusDISTRICT COLLECTOR, RAIGAD AND ORS.

2012 INSC 126Appeal(s) allowed

Ravi Yashwant Bhoir, elected President of Uran Municipal Council, was disqualified for the remainder of his term and barred for six years under Section 558 of the Maharashtra Municipal Councils Act on allegations of misconduct, including failure to call a General Body meeting and awarding tenders at …

PRAGATI MAHILA MANDAL, NANDEDversusMUNICIPAL COUNCIL, NANDED AND ORS.

2011 INSC 140Appeal(s) allowed

Pragati Mahila Mandal, a charitable trust, was allotted a 60‑year lease of a plot by Nanded Municipal Council to start a school for girls. Unable to fund the school, it instead operated a hostel for girls and working women on a no‑profit basis. A public‑interest writ petition filed by Anil …

SAU. LAXMI VERMAversusSTATE OF MAHARASHTRA AND ORS.

2010 INSC 221Dismissed

The case concerned the resignation of Councillor Rupesh Yogeshwar Dhepe under Section 41(2) of the Maharashtra Municipal Councils, Nagar Panchayats and Industrial Townships Act, 1965. Dhepe submitted a typewritten resignation that he had already signed, but after the Collector’s corrections he only …

MAHENDRA BABURAO MAHADIK AND ORS.versusSUBHASH KRISHNA KANITKAR AND ORS.

2005 INSC 148Dismissed

The Bhiwandi Municipal Council took over a strip of land for road widening and granted the appellants only repair permission for the remaining land (ground + two storeys). The appellants nevertheless erected a six‑storey building. The Council served a notice under Sections 52 and 53 of the …