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Maharashtra not to appeal in NTC land sale case

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Affected people should move Supreme Court: Chief Minister

MUMBAI: The Maharashtra Government will not go in appeal against the Bombay High Court verdict that set aside sale of NTC mill land.

However, Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh maintains that the court only rejected the Government's clarification defining the concept of open land in the Development Control Rules amended in 2001. "The court has not struck down the DC rules amended in 2001," he told a media briefing here.

The Chief Minister said the rejection of the explanation created some ambiguity and the government would seek the opinion of its legal department. "The people affected by the decision (the National Textile Corporation and builders) would move the apex court, we need not."

The amended DC rules entitled mill landowners to only one-third of the land for commercial purpose and made it mandatory for them to hand over one-third of the land to the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation for use as open space and another one-third to the Maharashtra Area and Housing Development Authority for low-cost housing.

However, through a clarification, the Government redefined `open land,' favouring builders. The court rejected it.

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