BALJIT SINGH vs IMPROVEMENT TRUST LUDHIANA

The Supreme Court addressed the issue of whether a transferee of a plot of land can claim rights after the original allotment is cancelled. The Court held that since the original allottee, Smt. Shammi Verma, was ineligible for the allotment, the appellant, as her transferee, could not claim any rights superior to hers. The Court upheld the High Court's dismissal of the writ petition, affirming that the appellant had no independent right to the plot in question under the applicable regulations of the Improvement Trust, Ludhiana.