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2026
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18988245 |
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- Introduction The Supreme Court's decision in Property Owners Association v. State of Maharashtra constitutes one of the most significant shifts in Indian constitutional jurisprudence on property, redistribution, and the scope of Directive Principles of State Policy. Decided by a nine-judges Constitution Bench, the case revisits the interpretation of Article 39(b) of the Constitution and the relevance of Article 31C in protecting redistributive laws. At stakes was whether privately owned property could, by interpretive extension, be treated as a "material resource of community", thereby justifying extensive state control or redistribution. The judgement is doctrinally important not merely for settling a long-standing ambiguity created by Ranganatha Reddy and Sanjeev Coke, but also for recalibrating the Constitutional balance between social justice and individual rights in post-liberation India.