MUMBAI: In a aid to Maharashtra leader secretary U P S Madan, the Bombay prime courtroom on Monday quashed and put aside a different courtroom order directing the state Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) to probe corruption charges levelled towards the senior bureaucrat referring to land reserved for a drive-in theatre in Bandra-Kurla Complex.
A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre allowed the petition filed by way of Madan challenging the October 2018 order of a different ACB courtroom.
Madan, in his petition, mentioned that the particular ACB courtroom had passed the order with out obtaining prior sanction from the federal government beneath phase 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The bench, whilst allowing the petition and quashing the lower courtroom order, mentioned it would move an in depth order later.
The particular ACB courtroom had ordered for the probe towards Madan on an application filed by way of one Pratap Teli, who claimed that Madan, all the way through his tenure as commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, had flouted norms and brought about pecuniary advantage to Ranbir Maker and Manish Maker, directors of The Indian Film Combine Private Limited.
Teli, thru his suggest Aditya Pratap, had submitted ahead of the particular courtroom that Madan, as competent planning authority, had given "illegal pecuniary advantage" to Makers by way of flouting categorical provisions of the regulation.
According to the appliance and submissions made ahead of the particular courtroom, a big plot measuring above 20 acres was reserved for a drive-in theatre in Bandra (East), a "substantial" part of which fell within the class of Coastal Zone Regulations II.
Teli claimed that as according to the rules issued on February 19, 1991, Floor Space Index (FSI) admissible handiest as according to this notification shall be successful and that there could be no trade of use, which supposed that the land may just handiest be used for the development of drive-in theatre.
Teli advised the particular courtroom that in spite of this, FSI of 2 was granted allowing "huge construction" on the land, allowing an "illegal" trade in its use to that of a shopping center, five-star hotel, and many others.
A division bench of Justices Ranjit More and Bharati Dangre allowed the petition filed by way of Madan challenging the October 2018 order of a different ACB courtroom.
Madan, in his petition, mentioned that the particular ACB courtroom had passed the order with out obtaining prior sanction from the federal government beneath phase 197 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.
The bench, whilst allowing the petition and quashing the lower courtroom order, mentioned it would move an in depth order later.
The particular ACB courtroom had ordered for the probe towards Madan on an application filed by way of one Pratap Teli, who claimed that Madan, all the way through his tenure as commissioner of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority, had flouted norms and brought about pecuniary advantage to Ranbir Maker and Manish Maker, directors of The Indian Film Combine Private Limited.
Teli, thru his suggest Aditya Pratap, had submitted ahead of the particular courtroom that Madan, as competent planning authority, had given "illegal pecuniary advantage" to Makers by way of flouting categorical provisions of the regulation.
According to the appliance and submissions made ahead of the particular courtroom, a big plot measuring above 20 acres was reserved for a drive-in theatre in Bandra (East), a "substantial" part of which fell within the class of Coastal Zone Regulations II.
Teli claimed that as according to the rules issued on February 19, 1991, Floor Space Index (FSI) admissible handiest as according to this notification shall be successful and that there could be no trade of use, which supposed that the land may just handiest be used for the development of drive-in theatre.
Teli advised the particular courtroom that in spite of this, FSI of 2 was granted allowing "huge construction" on the land, allowing an "illegal" trade in its use to that of a shopping center, five-star hotel, and many others.
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