Municipality - Duty of - Dumping of Garbage near residential colony - Direction.

Municipal Corporation has a statutory obligation to clean the garbage and/or to collect the garbage so as to keep the city clean. Corporation is also directed to see that if any plan is submitted by anybody for construction of house on this place it shall not grant permission because if the same was originally this part of the pond and the character of the land was otherwise and was filled up by surreptitious means. [Arun Sanyal vs State of West Bengal. AIR 1998 Cal 331. B.P.Banerjee & Ronjit Kumar Mitra {JJ}].