Kolkata Court January 1934 Judgments

Basanta Kumar Das Vs. Corporation of Calcutta

Court: Kolkata

Reported in: AIR1934Cal389

ORDER1. This rule is directed against an order of demolition passed by the Municipal Magistrate of Calcutta Under Section 363, Calcutta Municipal Act. The Magistrate has ordered that certain structures, said to be unauthorized, in premises No. 62, Baranashi Ghose Street, be demolished by the Corporation at the expense of the owner.2. The facts shortly stated are the following: The petitioner was the owner of the western portion of the said premises. In February 1926 he asked for sanction to erect certain structures on his part of the premises, submitting with his application a plan showing the entire premises. The District Building Surveyor refused sanction upon certain grounds, and on that the petitioner preferred an appeal which was heard and decided by the Building Committee on 14th June 1926. Their order was that the appeal should be allowed and that formal sanction should issue on the petitioner opening out some proposed spaces as shown in the plan. This condition being fulfilled ...