Bombay HC rejects Shiv Sena corporator’s petition, slaps costs

On Jadhav’s plea, the bench of Chief Justice Pradeep Nandrajog and Justice Bharati H Dangre said 622 of the 986 pages were simply a list of the number of trees with their details on the 33-hectare land for the proposed car shed. Thus, the number of pages to be read was only 364. “Surely, from 24th till 28th August 2019, there being five days intervening the date of the notice and the date of the meeting, were enough,” the bench said.

The court said it was “sad” to note that two members, Jagdish Kutty and Sushama Kamlesh Rai, who had walked out of the meeting and were not present at the time of voting, filed a joint affidavit to support their colleague Jadhav by deposing that the resolution finally passed was a “farcical voice” vote.

“If they were not present at the voting, the question of the two asserting a fact/event having taken place in their presence is a false assertion. The pleadings being on oath made before a court in judicial proceedings would attract the offence of perjury, but we leave it at that with the hope and belief that representatives of the citizens of this country would discharge their duties faithfully and honestly and not play partisan games in a court of law,” the bench said.