The Supreme Court on Thursday agreed to hear on Friday a plea of Maharashtra MLC Dhananjay Munde against the Bombay High Court order directing registration of a case against him in an alleged illegal purchase of Government land case.
A vacation bench of justices Indira Banerjee and Ajay Rastogi said it will hear the plea on Friday in which the NCP leader has sought stay of the high court order which directed police to file a case against him for allegedly purchasing a land at Pus village in Ambajogai tehsil of Beed district.
The high court’s order was passed on Tuesday by a division bench on a plea filed by one Rajabhau Phad, who alleged that the land which belonged to the Government was purchased and given to the Belkhandi Math in Beed as gift.
As per the law, the land cannot be transferred without the Government’s permission, the initial petition had said.
Heirs of Ranit Wyanka Giri, the mahant of the Belkhandi Math when the land was given as a gift, transferred it in their names and claimed that they were its owners and the Government was not informed about it.
The land was then later bought by Munde on the basis of a general power of attorney in 2012. Munde applied for non-agricultural status (NA) of the land and got it, the petition had alleged.