1 IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION PUBLIC INTEREST LITIGATION NO. 164 OF 2006 Shantaram Ganpat Kadam ...Petitioner Versus Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation & Anr. ...Respondents. None for the Petitioner Mr. S.R. Nargolkar, Assistant Government Pleader, for Respondent No.1 Mr. D.R. More for Respondent No. 2. CORAM: B ILAL NAZKI and S.A. BOBDE, JJ. DATE: FEBRUARY 27, 2008 P.C.:­ Nobody appears for the petitioner. We have heard the learned counsel for the respondents and perused the record. 2. The relief claimed by the petitioner was that the municipal funds should not be utilised for widening of Triveni Nagar­Talwade Road. The petitioner based his contention on a Government of India Notification dated 26th December, 2002. By this Notification, under Section 3 of the Works of Defence Act, 1903, the Government of India 2 directed that land falling within a distance of 2000 yards from the outer perimeter wall of the works of Defence, viz., Central Ammunition Depot, Dehu Road, Pune, in the State of Maharashtra, should be kept free from building and other obstructions. The learned counsel for respondent No.1 submits that an existing road was being widened, and, as a matter of fact, neither a building was being constructed, nor any obstruction was being created. Therefore, we feel that the Notification was not an impediment for widening of an existing road, which would be otherwise in the interest of the institutions of the Defence. We do not find any merit in this P.I.L. It is accordingly dismissed. BILAL NAZKI, J. S.A. BOBDE, J.