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THTS THE 3RD D\Y OF DECEMBER 1987 $ Nl
BEFORE
s TT{E HCN I BLE MR.iTUSTTCE P.K.SI{YAMSUNDAR

writ P€tltlon No.20422,/79A6 :,

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Betwe€n:-
Smt.Venkatanma, G\.i
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,^i/o Lat€ Kemtr= iah, L)
- ----_. ag€d &out ?1 1re ars ,
resldlng at No.94 e
Nandidurga Ext€ nsion,
Banga lore -6 . : P€tltlon€r
(ey srl .c.B.Manjunath for Sri.M.Raghav€ndrachar Adv )

And:-
1 state of Karnataka
by lts s€cr€tary,
D€ trErtme nt of Housing
ard Urban D€ v€ IoIm€ nt ,
Banga Iore . : Re spond€ nt .
(ey sri .n. u. chandangoudar, HCGA for respondent )

This writ p€tition is filed uno€r Articles 226

of th€ constitutlon with an affldavit praying
and 227
for the r€asons stat€d th€r€ln that thls Court L€
pleased to quash Annexur€-C dt:3O-7-1986 €tc.
IiT OA
This writ petitlcn coming on for preliminary
aring thts da!r, th€ Court maie the following:-
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\ :lr s vrrit p€titlon is dir€cted against an
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:).i\ order $ade by the Goverrf,nent on th€ 3oth of JuIy, 1986

refusing permissicn to th€ petltr.on€r to seIl land in
sy.Nos.118 and 119 cf se€genahalll viIlage, Bldarahall!

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llob 1l ,*f thos€ lanos
'6lnJ'
were ccmprlseC vrlthln th€ gre€n
T\'r Certified copy contarns
be It ar€a .
4 r',r r'.r pv irg charges of t-__."/{I....,,.- r.
\rctivcd
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t2. Aggrl€ved by that order, the p€tition€r
chall€ng€s the same and seeks for lts annulment
on tlG-two grounds. They a re t) that applloatlon
for grant of permiesion to sell havlng b€€n mde
,.,n
on 18-10-1982 tt r,ss In law bound to hav€ been U'
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dtspos€d o? wlthln 6O days as contemplated und€r
s€ctlon 2? of the Act ard ln default, the petition€r
was €ntltl€C to presum€ th€ grant of permisslon;
tt) in th€ light of Ann€xur€ -D clrcular lssued by
' i6ol
the Gov€ rnm€nt on 29-7 -1986 statlng et present th€r€
was Ln th€ €y€ of lav, no gr€en b€lt and 16a1 appllcations
for dtversion of agrlcultural I<rd for oEh€r purpos€s
should not b€ declined on th€ ground that the sald
land vras eonprlsed within th€ gr€€n be It area. It ., <-,.-}.-]
q\or L
- r.ras there fore evtdent that r€fusal of tlrd alienation
sought for und€r Ann€xure-C vas clearly lnvaIid. F{aving
heard ti6 Iearned Counsel for th€ petition€r and th€
.j+Fie+qordva-''rt'I't
Iearned Hlgh Court Gov€rnment A'd'?eeete, for th€ State,
it is cl€ar that both th€ cont€ntions raised as afor€sald
are wII found€d. Hovre v€r, for the purpos€ of thls
cas€ it is not necessary to say anythtng ryfi*
RT OF contentlon €ffitfiafier ralsed on the basis cf
Annexur€ that Clerc w^a at th€ nnbm€ nt
-D spelllng out
to-r.--hg
7 no gre€n b€It was extstlng ana^permission for ccnversion
),
1 should not te refus€d on that basls. on th€ first point
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bas€d on the provision of section 2'l of th€ Urban
I-and (C€illng and Regulation) Act, 1976, h€r€inaft€r

caIleo the Act2 tt is clear that section 2? of t tt€

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Act stipulates seeking and obtainlng Ixrmission by
the ccmp€t€nt authority for transf€r of Iand aff€ct€d
Ly the Act. sub-s€ct lon (4) ther€of enjoins on th€
authortty to make an ord€r of r€fusing th€ p€rmission
sought for or to ccrnmunlcat€ th€ said order to t{rc
applicants seeking such permisslon.) wlthin 50 days frcrn
th€ dat€ of ^L;w)_-
the appliaation.

3 S€ction 27 of the Act r€ads a s follor.is : -

"27 . {l )Notwithstandl nq anything contain€d
in any,other 1aw for th€ tlm€ belng ln f orce,
but subject to the provisions of sub-s€ction
(30 of s€ctlon 5 and sub-seetion(a) of
s€ctl.on 10, no p€rson shall transfer by way
of sak, mortgage e 91ft I€asE for a perlod
exceedln; t€n y€ars, or otherwlse, any urtan
or urbanlsable land with a bui ldlng (whe the r
constructed before or aft€r th€ conm€ncement
of this Act)or a portlon only of such bullding
for a period of t€n years of such cofiun€nc€m€nt
or from the date on which the bulldlnq is
Or construct€o, whichever is lat€r, €xc€pt yrith
th€ pr€v ious p€rmission in writincj of the
comp€t€nt autllortty.
7A (2) Any person desirtng to mak€ a transfer
tE x ref€rr€d to in sub-section(1), may make an
r application in writing to th€ .conp€t€nt authority
\* in such form and ln such manner as may be
* pre scr ibed .
(3) on r€c€ipt of an aFplicatlon und€r
\ {jI sub-s€ction(2), th€ ompet€nt authority may,
aft€r rnaktng such tnqulry as lt d€€ms fit,
x by order in wrltlng, grant or refus€ to grant
the p€rmission applied for:
Provlded that th€ cromp€ t€ n. authorlty sha}l
not refuse to grant the F rmissLon applled for
unless it has recorded in writlnl th€ reasons
fr)r cjoing so and a copy of the same has heerr
 ccxnmunlcated to th€ appltcant.
(a ) ,ime re wlthln a perioo of slxty days of th€
dat€ of r€c€ipt of an applicatlon und€r
thls sectlon the com!)€t€ nt aut:rority do€s ,y
not r€frls€ to grant the permisslon -pplied ..
for or do€s not ccrnmunicate th€ refusal to
th€ applioant, the ccrnp€tent authority shd.I
b€ de€m€d to hav€ grarted th€ permisslon applled
for. tr

A plain readlng of th€ aLov€ prcrri.sion rnak€s it

obvLous that [n th€ €vent of €lther th€ refusal
or its conununlcatlon doe€ not *re withln 60 days
of th€ appllcation, then the law pr€sum€s the
applicatlon to have b€en grant€d.

\ 4. In this case, Annexur€ -C und€r virich permission

sought for by the petltion€r rra s r€fused for whatgdev€ r
E reasoning\as be€n madenearly 4 years aft€r th€
)
p€tltloner made ' an appllcatlon for grart of
permlsslon to alLenate th€ lard ln gu€stlon.
lttedly the application vras made on 18.1O.1982
had been r€ j€ct,"d only on 29th ,July 1986.tn terms
Seetlon 27G) of th€ Act, th€ r€jection having
long after th€ expiry of th€ 50 days limits
saged, it was clearly wlthout any force and kas
.of cmtrE t€ nc_y ln ttr eye.of lau. Th€ p€titloner's
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application for rellef to aIi€nat€ the properti€s
fg.-,tuv-\
must^b€ d€€m€d to hav€ been orant€d. Ttrerefore lLr-
follor.rs th€ r€J€ct6,on und€r Annexure -C ls clearly
z,
unsupportabr€. Resultlne posft iorfit-wlll perhapsi
op€n to th€ petitioner to ali€nate th€ prop€rty
tithout any r€stralnts ea+lSa€isC--amd€ r th€ Act..

5. In that vLew of th€ matter, thls writ

petitlon 15 alloned and the e ndors€me[t of the
c'ove r rm€nt dated 3oth JuIy 1986 as pe! Ann€xur€ -C
iE h€r€by quasheq. The learned Governm€ nt Advocate'sr.J
says that If !t.-l=--:fcrurd th€ propos€d transf€r7
for r+Lrlch the petttion€r had
"o,.,gh11."r" S
an
a uthorl t tls oftenas- any other proviiion of th€ 1atl,,
4c-o.o
Gove r rrne n t sHl be at llb€rty to t ake approPriate

actlon aEainst the p€titioner ln that b€haIf . I

qt
need h y in the ev€nt o f app Iicatlon of th€
'tir transfer
onEr s€e ng 9l tanas offends any
€*-hr.s,.}tr
nt.ugulrlnbe ai lit€rty to
lng of th€ br€ach

Itro cost s .