LPA/37/1990 1/3 JUDGMENT IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 37 of 1990 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No.575 of 1990 With CIVIL APPLICATION No.285 of 1990 In LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 37 of 1990 In SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No.575 of 1990 For Approval and Signature: HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE R.M.DOSHIT HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE K.M.THAKER ========================================================= 1 Whether Reporters of Local Papers may be allowed to see the judgment ? 2 To be referred to the Reporter or not ? 3 Whether their Lordships wish to see the fair copy of the judgment ? 4 Whether this case involves a substantial question of law as to the interpretation of the constitution of India, 1950 or any order made thereunder ? 5 Whether it is to be circulated to the civil judge ? ========================================================= SHANKERAO BABULAL BHOSLEY & 4 - Appellant(s) Versus UNION OF INDIA & 2 - Respondent(s) ========================================================= Appearance : MR MRUDUL BAROT for MK VAKHARIA for Appellant(s) : 1,NOTICE SERVED for Appellant(s) : 2 - 5. NOTICE SERVED for Respondent(s) : 1 - 2. MR DIPEN A DESAI for Respondent(s) : 3, ========================================================= CORAM : HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE R.M.DOSHIT and LPA/37/1990 2/3 JUDGMENT HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE K.M.THAKER Date : 10/03/2008 ORAL JUDGMENT (Per : HONOURABLE MS. JUSTICE R.M.DOSHIT) This Appeal, preferred under Clause 15 of the Letters Patent, arises from the order dated 30th January, 1990 made by the learned Single Judge in above Special Civil Application No.575 of 1990. The appellants, writ petitioners, were the employees of the Gujarat State Road Transport Corporation, respondent No.3 (hereinafter referred to as “the Corporation”). It is the claim of the appellants that the Gujarat Housing Board had constructed certain residential quarters at Vadodara. Some 12 of the residential quarters were placed at disposal of the Corporation to be allocated to its servants for residence. The appellants are some of those, who were allocated the said residential quarters as the servants of the Corporation. The appellants came before this Court with a claim that they had right to purchase the residential quarters in their occupation on hire purchase basis. The Corporation, therefore, be directed to transfer the LPA/37/1990 3/3 JUDGMENT said residential quarters to the appellants. The reliance was placed on communication dated 14th February, 1979 addressed by the Government of India in its Ministry of Works and Housing to the Secretaries in charge of housing department of the State Governments. The said communication dated 14th February, 1979 makes provision for construction of a subsidized housing scheme for industrial workers. The said communication does not support the claim of the appellants to purchase the residential quarters in their occupation on hire purchase basis. The claim made by the appellants is wholly misconceived. It has rightly been rejected by the learned Single Judge. No case for interference is made out. The Appeal is dismissed in limine. Civil Application No.285 of 1990 stands disposed of. (Ms. R.M.Doshit, J.) (K.M.Thaker, J.) kdc