https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=268479 Public interest challenges to a tourism project were not rejected solely for delay or lack of bona fides, although the petitioners' conduct remained relevant to the merits. The Court also declined to invalidate the lease in its entirety, finding that the record showed only a limited portion of the land to be lake-related, while the rest had been identified for development, and that the later wetland rules did not retrospectively undo the earlier lease. However, a 99-year lease was held to be excessive under the applicable rules, so the arrangement was severed and the lease term reduced to 30 years, with protected carve-outs for the promenade and specified land parcels. en-us Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 26 Nov 2015 23:11:15 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=268479 Public interest challenges to a tourism project were not rejected solely for delay or lack of bona fides, although the petitioners' conduct remained relevant to the merits. The Court also declined to invalidate the lease in its entirety, finding that the record showed only a limited portion of the land to be lake-related, while the rest had been identified for development, and that the later wetland rules did not retrospectively undo the earlier lease. However, a 99-year lease was held to be excessive under the applicable rules, so the arrangement was severed and the lease term reduced to 30 years, with protected carve-outs for the promenade and specified land parcels. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 25 Apr 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=268479