Bombay HC Dismisses Housing Society’s Plea on Andheri Plot
MUMBAI: Recently, the Bombay High Court ruled that if a cooperative housing society is mistakenly allocated less land in a deemed conveyance than it is legally entitled to, such an order by a deputy registrar would not allow a neighboring society to claim the excess land. The HC dismissed a petition from a society in Mumbai’s suburbs, stating that “this court cannot support the petitioner’s effort to seize the land” designated for another society. Justice Sandeep Marne of the HC clarified that a deemed conveyance certificate is not an absolute endorsement of rights over the conveyed land. The court permitted…