↗️ *SUPREME COURT OF INDIA* CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NOS.3238-3239 OF 2025 (@Petition for Special Leave to Appeal (C) Nos.23308-23309/2017) NIRMITI DEVELOPERS THROUGH ITS PARTNERS & ANR. VERSUS THE STATE OF MAHARASHTRA & ORS. 25th FEBRUARY, 2025. *Recently observed that Section 127 of the Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966 requires that the land reserved, for any purpose specified in any plan under this act, should be utilised within the prescribed timeline. Otherwise, the reservation shall be deemed to have lapsed. The Court also observed that the timeline provided under the Act is sacrosanct and has to be adhered to by the State or by the authorities under the State.* *“The landowner cannot be deprived of the use of the land for years together. Once an embargo has been put on a landowner not to use the land in a particular manner, the said restriction cannot be kept open-ended for indefinite period.,” the Bench of Justices J.B Pardiwala and R. Mahadevan said.*