1996 (8) TMI 537

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....nt Survey Plot No. 53 measuring an area of Ac. 3.06 gunthas and Survey Plot No. 372/1 +2 measuring an area of Ac. 3.18 gunthas. On the basis of aforesaid purchase the name of the appellant was mutated in the record of rights on 14-2-1973. It appears that in September 1976 the Mamlatdar of the area concerned initiated a suo motu enquiry under Section 84-C of the Bombay Tenancy and Agricultural Land....

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....xercised within a reasonable time. Section 84-C of the Act does not prescribe any time for initiation of the proceeding. But in view of the settled position by several judgments of this Court that wherever a power is vested in a statutory authority without prescribing any time-limit, such power should be exercised within a reasonable time. In the present case the transfer took place as early as....