http://JUDIS.NIC.IN SUPREME COURT OF INDIA Page 1 of 15
PETITIONER: M. PENTIAH AND OTHERS
Vs.
RESPONDENT: MUDDALA VEERAMALLAPPA AND OTHERS.
DATE OF JUDGMENT: 07/11/1960
BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. BENCH: SUBBARAO, K. GAJENDRAGADKAR, P.B. SARKAR, A.K. WANCHOO, K.N. MUDHOLKAR, J.R.
CITATION: 1961 AIR 1107 1961 SCR (2) 295 CITATOR INFO : R 1977 SC 536 (16) RF 1977 SC2328 (11) RF 1978 SC 548 (3) R 1982 SC 149 (223) R 1986 SC 137 (66) RF 1988 SC1060 (12) F 1990 SC 933 (14) F 1991 SC 101 (30) RF 1992 SC 1 (60) RF 1992 SC 573 (33)
ACT: Municipality--Committee constituted under old Act continued by repealing Act--Term of office--Power--If can effect sale of municipal land--Interpretation of statute--Power of Court--Hyderabad District Municipalities Act, 1956 (Hyd. XVIII of 1956), ss. 16, 17, 18, 20, 32, 34, 35, 76, 77 and 320.
HEADNOTE: The respondents were the elected members of the Vicarabad 296 Municipal Committee, constituted in 1953, under the Hydera- bad Municipal and Town Committees Act, 1951 That Act was repealed by s. 320 of the Hyderabad District Municipalities Act, 1956, which came into force in 1956. That section provided that the committee constituted under the repealed enactment was to be deemed to have been constituted under the Act and the members thereof should hold office till the first meeting of the commi...