Textile Undertakings (Taking over of Management) Act, 1983

The Tata Mills Ltd occupied an undivided, undemarcated portion of Bombay House, owned by Associated Building Co., without a specific lease and had been using the space gratuitously after stopping payment of compensation. After the Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1983 vested management of Tata Mill…

The original lease of a 99‑year term on a plot in Mumbai, used for a cotton mill, later vested in a charitable trust. After the lease expired, Podar Mills occupied the premises as a protected tenant under the Bombay Rents Act. The Textile Undertakings (Nationalisation) Act, 1995 vested the statutory tenancy rights in t…

The workmen of several Bombay textile mills went on strike in January 1982, after which the Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1983 was enacted and the management of the mills was taken over by the National Textile Corporation Limited (NTC) on 10 February 1984. The central issue was whether the takeo…

The dispute concerned land that respondent No.1 claimed to have bought from Sitaram Mills Ltd. (SSML) under an unregistered 1975 agreement to sell, for which full consideration was paid and possession taken. The textile undertaking of SSML was taken over by the Central Government under the Textile Undertakings (Taking …

Hall & Anderson Ltd., originally a departmental store in Calcutta, purchased a textile mill in Bombay in 1950 and later operated both businesses separately. The textile mill was nationalised under the Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1983 and the Textile Undertaking Nationalisation Act, 1995. The g…

In 1983 the Government of India, responding to a prolonged textile strike, promulgated an Ordinance and later an Act to take over the management of thirteen textile mills pending their nationalisation. Three Bombay mills – Elphinstone Spinning & Weaving, Jam Manufacturing and New City – challenged the legislation, alle…

The petitioners had advance contracts with two Bombay textile mills for cloth, but after the mills were taken over by the Central Government under the Textile Undertakings (Taking over of Management) Act, 1983, the custodian claimed the contracts were cancelled and it bore no liability for pre‑takeover obligations. The…

The Supreme Court examined whether the surplus lands owned by Shree Sitaram Mills formed part of the "assets in relation to the textile undertaking" under sub‑section (2) of section 3 of the Textile Undertakings (Taking Over of Management) Act, 1983. The mill, a sick textile undertaking, had been disposing of surplus l…