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Gobind Pershad Jagdish Pershad vs New Delhi Municipal Committee on 12 March, 1982

Delhi High Court
Gobind Pershad Jagdish Pershad vs New Delhi Municipal Committee on 12 March, 1982
Equivalent citations: AIR 1982 Delhi 319, 22 (1982) DLT 99, 1982 (3) DRJ 199, 1982 RLR 340
Bench: A Rohatgi, L Seth


JUDGMENT

(1) Punjab Municipal Act, 1911, S.171 Section 171(4) is an ‘existing law’ within the meaning of clause(5) of Article 31 of the constitution. By its mere extension to the area of JNew Delhi Municipal Committee by a notification issued on June 3, 1958 it does not become a new law. Passages in Cannaaght Place, Gonnaught Circus and radial roads are ‘public streets: