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Manjit Singh Virdi And Ors vs Municipal Corporation Of Greater ...
2024 Latest Caselaw 25858 Bom

Citation : 2024 Latest Caselaw 25858 Bom
Judgement Date : 19 September, 2024

Bombay High Court

Manjit Singh Virdi And Ors vs Municipal Corporation Of Greater ... on 19 September, 2024

Author: M.S.Sonak

Bench: M.S.Sonak

   2024:BHC-OS:14331-DB
                                                     Manjit Singh Virdi & Ors v Municipal Corporation of
                                                                                 Greater Mumbai & Ors
                                                                                  oswp-1463-2013.docx


                                                                                                        Amol




                              IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY
                                    ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION
                                          WRIT PETITION NO. 1463 OF 2013


                      1.     MANJIT SINGH VIRDI,
                             aged 59 years of Mumbai, Indian
                             Inhabitant residing at 12, A/7
                             Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
                             Mahim
                             Mumbai 400 016.
                      2.     HARPREET KAUR HARINDER SINGH VIRDI,
                             aged 63 years of Mumbai, Indian
                             Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/7
                             Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
AMOL
PREMNATH                     Mahim
JADHAV                       Mumbai 400 016.
Digitally signed by
AMOL PREMNATH         3.     VIKRAMJIT SINGH HARJIT SINGH VIRDI,
JADHAV
Date: 2024.09.20             aged 36 years of Mumbai, Indian
11:19:01 +0530
                             Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/1
                             Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
                             Mahim
                             Mumbai 400 016.                                            ...PETITIONERS

                               ~ VERSUS ~

                      1.     MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER
                             MUMBAI,
                             having its head office at Mahapalika
                             Marg, C.S.T. Mumbai 400 001.
                      2.     THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER,
                             Municipal Corporation of Greater
                             Mumbai, having its office at




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       Mahapalika Marg, C.S.T. Mumbai
       400 001.
3.     ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER G/NORTH
       WARD,
       having his office at G/North
       Municipal Ward Office,
       Harishchandra Yewle Marg, Dadar
       (West) Mumbai 400 028.
4.     STATE OF MAHARASHTRA,
       Through Urban Development Dept,
       Mantralaya, Mumbai 400 032.                              ...RESPONDENTS


                                      WITH

                  INTERIM APPLICATION NO. 440 OF 2019

                                        IN

                      WRIT PETITION NO. 1463 OF 2013


1.     MANJIT SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 59 years of Mumbai, Indian
       Inhabitant residing at 12, A/7
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.
2.     HARPREET KAUR HARINDER SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 63 years of Mumbai, Indian
       Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/7
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.
3.     VIKRAMJIT SINGH HARJIT SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 36 years of Mumbai, Indian




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       Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/1
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.                                             ...APPLICANTS


 In the matter between

1.     MANJIT SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 59 years of Mumbai, Indian
       Inhabitant residing at 12, A/7
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.
2.     HARPREET KAUR HARINDER SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 63 years of Mumbai, Indian
       Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/7
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.
3.     VIKRAMJIT SINGH HARJIT SINGH VIRDI,
       aged 36 years of Mumbai, Indian
       Inhabitant, residing at 12, B/1
       Navjivan Society, Mori Road,
       Mahim
       Mumbai 400 016.                                            ...PETITIONERS


         ~ VERSUS ~

1.     MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF GREATER
       MUMBAI,
       having its head office at Mahapalika
       Marg, C.S.T. Mumbai 400 001.
2.     THE MUNICIPAL COMMISSIONER,
       Municipal Corporation of Greater



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       Mumbai, having its office at
       Mahapalika Marg, C.S.T. Mumbai
       400 001.
3.     ASSISTANT COMMISSIONER G/NORTH
       WARD,
       having his office at G/North
       Municipal Ward Office,
       Harishchandra Yewle Marg, Dadar
       (West) Mumbai 400 028.
4.     STATE OF MAHARASHTRA,
       Through Urban Development Dept,
       Mantralaya, Mumbai 400 032.                                ...RESPONDENTS


APPEARANCES
FOR THE PETITIONERS                     Ms N V Sanglikar.
FOR RESPONDENT-BMC                      Mr A Y Sakhare, Senior Advocate
                                             with Kunal Waghmare, i/b
                                             Sunil K Sonawane.
FOR RESPONDENT-STATE                    Mrs Uma Palsuledesai, AGP.


                                         CORAM : M.S.Sonak &
                                                 Kamal Khata, JJ.
                                                         c

                                Reserved On          : 12 September 2024
                               Pronounced On         : 19 September 2024
 JUDGMENT (Per MS Sonak J):

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1. Heard learned Counsel for the parties. The Petitioners

seek the following substantial reliefs in this Petition:-

"(a) that his Hon'ble Court be pleased to issue a Writ of Certiorari or such other appropriate Writ, order or direction

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calling for the records relating to the Town Planning Scheme III (Mahim Division) Final and 1st Variation (Final);

(b) that this Hon'ble Court be pleased to issue a Writ of Mandamus or such other appropriate Writ, order or direction to Respondent Nos. 1-3 to hand over vacant and peaceful possession of Final Plot No. 838, Town Planning Scheme III (Mahim Division) free from encumbrances to the Petitioners;"

2. Ms Sanglikar, the learned Counsel for the Petitioners,

submits that the Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai

("MCGM"), the planning authority under the provisions of the

Maharashtra Regional and Town Planning Act, 1966

("MRTP"), has approved the Town Planning Scheme ("TPS

III") at Mahim Division. She submits that Final Plot No. 838,

measuring 695 sq yds, has been allotted to the Petitioners in

terms of this scheme.

3. Ms Sanglikar submits that this Final Plot No. 838 was

originally Plot No. 88B, measuring 280 sq yds. She submits

that Nusserwanji Jehangir Patel and Piroshaw Jehangir Patel

were the lessees of Plot No. 88B, of which the Government of

Maharashtra was an owner (lessor). She states that this was

by virtue of a lease dated 8 November 1948. She submits that

this lease, dated 8 November 1948, was assigned to the

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Petitioners; consequently, even the names of the Petitioners

are entered into the property card.

4. Ms Sanglikar submits that after the TPS III was finalised

and the original Plot No. 88B was finalised as Final Plot No.

838, admeasuring 695 sq yds, Petitioners became entitled to

this Final Plot No. 838, admeasuring 695 sq yds. She

submitted that in terms of Sections 88, 89 and 90 of the

MRTP, the planning authority, i.e., MCGM, not only has the

power but the duty to enforce TPS III and handover the

vacant and peaceful possession of Final Plot No. 838,

admeasuring 695 sq yds to the Petitioners. Ms Sanglikar

submitted that the Petitioners continue in possession, i.e., the

original plot 88B. However, the additional area of 415 sq yds

is encroached upon by some parties, and the MCGM is duty-

bound to clear such encroachment and hand over the peaceful

and vacant possession of this additional area of 415 sq yds to

the Petitioners.

5. Ms Sanglikar submitted that the issue raised in this

Petition is covered by the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme

Court in the case of The Municipal Corporation of Greater

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Bombay & Anr v. The Advance Builders (India) Pvt. Ltd. &

Ors1.

6. For all the above reasons, Ms Sanglikar submitted that

the Rule in the Petition may be made absolute in terms of

prayer clauses (a) and (b) of the Petition.

7. Mr Sakhare, the learned Senior Advocate appearing for

the MCGM, submitted that the State of Maharashtra owned

the property. He submitted that a portion of the property

admeasuring 280 sq yds was leased by the State Government

to the Nusserwanji Jehangir Patel and Piroshaw Jehangir

Patel by an indenture of lease dated 8 November 1948 for 30

years along with the buildings and erections thereon. He

submitted that there may have been an assignment of lease

dated 8 November 1948 favouring the Petitioners. He,

however, submitted that even this assignment gave the

Petitioners some leasehold rights to only 280 sq yds, i.e.,

original Plot No. 88B and not to an area of 695 sq yds as is

now claimed by the Petitioners. He submitted that this lease

1 AIR 1972 SC 793

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of 8 November 1948 was for only 30 years, and there is no

clarity on the renewals.

8. Mr Sakhare submitted that the MCGM is authorised to

re-constitute plots while finalising a town planning scheme.

However, that does not mean that an allottee of the original

plot becomes either the owner, the lessee, or the assignee of a

final plot, which, in the present case, is much in excess of the

area of the original plot. He submits that MCGM, the planning

authority, only re-constitutes the plots from the planning

perspective. He, therefore, submits that based upon the final

re-constitution or based upon the original plot 88B being

reflected as final plot 838 in the TPS III, the Petitioners can

neither claim any leasehold rights to any area over 280 sq yds

nor can the Petitioners seek any Writ requiring the MCGM to

evict alleged trespassers or encroaches on government land.

He submitted that the alleged encroachers or trespassers have

not even been impleaded in this petition, though the relief is

to clear them from the final plot.

9. Mr Sakhare submitted that the provisions of Sections

88, 89, and 90 of the MRTP do not entitle the Petitioners to

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the reliefs prayed for in this Petition. He submitted that the

decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in Advance Builders

(supra) is distinguishable and does not support the

Petitioners' case.

10. Mr Sakhare submitted that the Rule issued in this

Petition may be discharged.

11. The rival contentions now fall for our determinations.

12. The Petitioners have pleaded in the Petition that they

are the legal heirs and representatives of the assignees of Final

Plot No. 838 TPS III. However, the records show that this

statement may be only partially correct but not entirely

correct.

13. Admittedly, the property, which comprises earlier Plot

No. 88B and the Final Plot No. 838, is owned by the State of

Maharashtra (Government property).

14. Further, admittedly, by an indenture lease dated 8

November 1948, the original Plot No. 88B, measuring 280 sq

yds, was leased by the State of Maharashtra to Nusserwanji

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Jehangir Patel and Piroshaw Jehangir Patel for a term of 30

years from 22 November 1945, subject to payment of rents.

15. The record also shows that by an indenture of

assignment dated 27 June 1950, Nusserwanji Jehangir Patel

and Piroshaw Jehangir Patel assigned the lease to this plot of

280 sq yds unto Rutonshaw Nusserwanji Toddywalla and Bai

Tehmina with the structures thereon.

16. The Petitioners have pleaded that Rutonshaw

Nusserwanji Toddywalla died intestate on 27 August 1959.

Similarly, his wife died intestate on 22 February 1971, leaving

behind three sons and four married daughters as their only

legal heirs and legal representatives. There is a pleading that

the option to renew the lease has also been exercised by this

time.

17. The six surviving heirs of Rutonshaw Nusserwanji

Toddywalla and Bai Tehmina, by deed of assignment dated 25

September 1996, assigned/conveyed original Plot No. 88B

together with the structures standing thereon to the

Petitioners. These pleadings are found in paragraph 6.3 of the

Petition, read with synopsis/dates of events against the date

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25 September 1996. Thus, the area assigned to the petitioners

was only 280 sq, yards by Deed of Assignment dated 25

September 1996 recorded in the Survey Register for the Town

and Island of Bombay at Exhibit 'A' Page 26 of the Petition.

18. As pointed out by Mr Sakhare, there is no clarity on the

aspect of the State of Maharashtra's renewal of the lease. In

any event, even if we proceed on the premise that such a lease

was renewed, the pleadings indicate that the Petitioners

acquired some rights only in the original Plot No. 88B,

measuring 280 sq yds.

19. Ms Sanglikar did contend that after TPS III entered

force on 1 March 1961 and original Plot No. 88B, measuring

280 sq yds, was reconstituted as Final Plot No. 838,

measuring 695 sq yds, the Petitioners acquired rights in the

Final Plot No. 838, measuring 695 sq yds. However, she could

not substantiate or make good this submission either based on

any documents on record or by way of the provisions of the

MRTP.

20. Ms Sanglikar, in support of her contention that the

Petitioners, under the reconstitution of original Plot No. 88B

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into Final Plot No. 838, had acquired right or interest in the

larger plot admeasuring 695 sq yds even though the deed of

assignment dated 25 September 1996 refers only to

assignment the original Plot No. 88B admeasuring 280 sq yds

firstly referred to the property card at Exhibit 'A' to the

Petition. She submitted that this property card refers to Final

Plot No. 838 TPS III, and the Petitioners' names are entered in

the column of the "person in beneficial ownership".

21. On perusal and evaluation of the property card at

Exhibit 'A' (page 26), it is evident that the names of the

Government of Maharashtra (lessor), the Nusserwanji

Jehangir Patel and Piroshaw Jehangir Patel (lessees),

Toddywallas (holder lessees-joint tenants), the legal

representatives of Rutonshaw Nusserwanji Toddywalla and

Bai Tehmina and the Petitioners appear in the column of the

"name of person in beneficial ownership". Besides, in the

adjacent column dealing with the mode of acquisition by the

present owner, the Nusserwanji Jehangir Patel and Piroshaw

Jehangir Patel are stated to be lessees under an indenture

lease dated 8 November 1948 for the area of 280 sq yds. The

Rutonshaw Nusserwanji Toddywalla and Bai Tehmina were

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assigned this area of 280 sq yds vide a deed of assignment

dated 27 July 1950. The legal representatives of The

Rutonshaw Nusserwanji Toddywalla acquired some rights in

the area of 280 sq yds under a declaration dated 21 February

2004. Finally, the Petitioners again acquired interest vide

deed of assignment dated 25 September 1996 to the same

original Plot No. 88B measuring 280 sq yds.

22. The property card is thus consistent with the Petitioners'

pleadings and the various documents referred to in the

pleading about the acquisition of rights to an area of 280 sq.

yards but not 695 sq. yards. There is absolutely nothing in the

property card from which it would be inferred that the

Petitioners acquired the right to any area beyond 280 sq yds

or to the area of 695 sq yds just because of the original Plot

88B being re-constituted as a larger Final Plot No. 838

admeasuring 695 sq. yds under TPS III.

23. Ms Sanglikar secondly referred to Exhibit 'F2' on page

63-B, Exhibit 'F6' on page 63-F, and finally, the Collector's

letter dated 1 July 2019 annexed as Exhibit 'F11" on page 63-

P addressed to the Petitioners reference in Final Plot No. 838

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TPS III. These documents do not even remotely support the

Petitioners case of acquiring rights to any area in excess of

280 sq yds for reasons briefly discussed hereafter.

24. The documents at Exhibit 'F2' and 'F6' do not state or

suggest that the petitioners acquired any rights over an area

over 280 sq. yards. The communication dated 1 July 2019

(Exhibit F11) was the collector's response to the petitioner's

application dated 22 February 2018. This communication lists

the flow of title but does not even remotely state that the

government has allotted to the Petitioners lease of any area

beyond 280 sq yds. This communication, in fact, states that

the original lease deed with Nusserwanji Jehangir Patel and

Piroshaw Jehangir Patel expired on 21 November 1975, about

44 years ago, and no steps have been taken for renewal of

said lease. Thus, this communication dated 1 July 2019, far

from supporting the Petitioner's case, goes against the

Petitioner's case.

25. Since the Petitioners have instituted the Petition on the

incorrect premise that they were entitled to the entire Final

Plot admeasuring 695 sq yds or that they are entitled to any

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area over 280 sq yds, this Petition is liable to fail once this

premise is found wanting. Unless this basic fact was

established, there is no question of reference to the provisions

of Sections 88, 89 and 90 of the MRTP and seek the reliefs

prayed for in this petition.

26. In any event, Section 88 of the MRTP provides that on

and after the day on which the preliminary scheme comes into

force,

(a) All lands required by the planning authority shall,

unless it is otherwise determined in such scheme, vests

absolutely in the planning authority free from all

encumbrances;

(b) All rights in the original plots which have been re-

constituted shall determine, and the re-constituted plot

shall become subject to the rights settled by the

Arbitrator.

27. The Petitioners have not shown that the arbitrator

determined that they were now the lessees in respect of Final

Plot No. 838, measuring 695 sq yds. This is assuming that the

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arbitrator could have made such a determination to the

prejudice of the State of Maharashtra, which is admittedly the

owner of the land, and the parties in occupation of the land

beyond 280 sq. yards for which the petitioners have an

assignment deed. The petitioners have simply but incorrectly

assumed this position and petitioned this Court for the above

reliefs.

28. Section 89 of the MRTP deals with the Power of the

Planning Authority to evict summarily. It provides that:

(1) On and after the day on which a [preliminary

scheme] comes into force, any person continuing to

occupy any land which he is not entitled to occupy

under the [preliminary scheme] may, in accordance

with the prescribed procedure be summarily evicted by

the Planning Authority or any of its officers authorised

in that behalf by that Authority.

(2) If the Planning Authority is opposed or impeded in

evicting such person or taking possession of the land

from such person, the Commissioner of Police, or as the

case may be, the District Magistrate shall at the request

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of the Planning Authority enforce the eviction of such

person or secure delivery of possession of the land to the

Planning Authority as may be necessary.

29. Section 90(1)(a) confers the powers of the planning

authority to enforce the scheme, and this includes among

other things power to remove, pull down or alter any building

or other work in the area included in the scheme which is

such as to contravene the scheme or in the erection of which

or to carrying out of which, any provision of the scheme has

not been complied with.

30. Since the Petitioners have failed to establish that they

are entitled to any right in respect of an area over 280 sq yds,

the Petitioners cannot insist that the MCGM exercise its

powers under Sections 89 and 90 of the MRTP to evict any

alleged encroachers on the balance government land in which

the Petitioners have failed to establish any right title or

interest. The petitioners have pleaded that they already

possess an area of 280 sq. yards, and there is no issue about

that. Therefore, based upon the provisions of Sections 88, 89

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and 90 of the MRTP, no relief can be granted to the

Petitioners.

31. In Advance Builders (supra), the town planning scheme

entered force on 1 January 1959. This was known as the

Bombay Town Planning Scheme, Santacruz No. VI and

covered an area of about 169 acres divided into two parts by

the Ghodbunder Road, which ran from south to north. A part

of this area belonged to the N J Wadia Trust. This was

covered by unauthorised huts, sheds and stables. Removing all

these slums or slum-like structures was one of the objectives

of introducing the town planning scheme. While determining

the rights for the scheme, the arbitrator had made a specific

observation that the construction of new roads, the provision

of public sides/drains and the removal of slums was necessary

for the development of this part of the suburb on proper lines.

32. Despite the above, the MCGM, which was duty-bound to

implement the scheme by removing the slums, sheds, and

temporary structures and providing roads and drains as

directed by the scheme, remained inactive and failed to take

any steps. Therefore, Advance Builders, who had acquired

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rights to this property from the N J Wadia Trust, sought the

writ of mandamus to direct the MCGM to remove all the huts,

sheds, stables and temporary structures and to construct roads

and drains as indicated in the town planning scheme and to

complete the scheme for use within such time as may be fixed

Court.

33. In the above facts, the only question which arose for

determination before the Hon'ble Supreme Court was whether

the MCGM was bound under the law to remove such the

structures, sheds and huts situated in the plots of Advance

Builders/N J Wadia Trust in so far as they contravened the

town planning scheme. On analyzing the provisions of the

Town Planning Act 1954, the Hon'ble Supreme Court held

that the MCGM was so bound.

34. In Advance Builders, there was no dispute that Advance

Builders/N J Wadia Trust were the owners or had an interest

in the property from where they sought the removal of huts,

sheds and other structures. There was no dispute that

removing such huts, sheds, and other structures was one of

the prime purposes of the town planning scheme, and without

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such removal, the scheme could not be enforced. The

arbitrator's determination was also unambiguous. Based on

these admitted or established facts, the Hon'ble Supreme

Court held that the MCGM could not avoid enforcing its

scheme and removing the huts, sheds and structures that were

obstructing the effective implementation of the scheme.

35. The facts in the present case are not comparable to

those in Advance Builders (supra). Here, the Petitioners have

failed to establish any right or interest in the area beyond 280

sq yds. There is no allegation about any encroachments in the

area within 280 sqds. In fact, the Petitioners have their

structure within this area. The TPS III or the arbitrator's

determination does not give Petitioners rights to any

additional area beyond 280 sq yds. Therefore, there is nothing

to show that the parties putting up any structures beyond 280

sq yds were encroachers on Government land or, in any event,

on land to which the petitioners could establish any interest.

Nothing has shown us that removing such structures beyond

280 sq yds was one of the objectives of TPS III. All these

factors are sufficient to distinguish the decision in Advance

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Builders (supra). Therefore, no relief is due to the Petitioners

based on the said decision.

36. The Petitioners, who have established some semblance

of interest in the plot admeasuring 280 sq. yds, cannot, based

on the finalization of a Town Planning Scheme (TPS III),

claim rights in a larger plot admeasuring 695 sqyds and seek

to recover possession of the additional area after clearing all

the structures therein by instituting a Writ Petition. The

Petitioners have failed to establish any right through any

deed, document or agreement and payment of any

consideration for acquiring any right to the plot beyond 280

sq. yds to secure such relief. Consequently, the petitioners

cannot claim to enforce any corresponding duty of the MCGM

in this regard.

37. Incidentally, the petitioners seek relief involving the

MCGM evicting some alleged encroachers or trespassers on

government land over which the petitioners have established

no interest or rights. No details of such alleged encroachments

or trespassing are provided, nor are the alleged encroachers or

trespassers impleaded as parties. Apart from the circumstance

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that the petitioners have made out no case for any relief on

merits, assuming they had, no relief could be granted without

impleadment of such parties who would be directly and most

prejudicially affected.

38. In view of the dismissal of the Writ Petition, pending

Interim Application stands disposed of. For all the above

reasons, we dismiss this Writ Petition. The Rule is discharged

without any orders of costs.

  (Kamal Khata, J)                                           (M. S. Sonak, J)








 

 
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