In Brief
Hari Krishna Mandir Trust challenged the State Government's refusal to modify a Town Planning Scheme that erroneously showed a private road as held by the Municipal Corporation. The High Court had dismissed the writ petition, finding disputed facts and that deletion amounted to substantial alteration. The Supreme Court allowed the appeal, holding that mandamus requires a statutory duty to exist towards the applicant, which was absent here. The Court also held that the High Court should have determined the disputed facts rather than dismissing summarily, and that correcting property records was not a substantial alteration to the scheme.
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