Tarabai Nagar Co-Op. Hog. Society (Proposed) v. The State of Maharashtra - Supreme Court of India, Ruling date 22 August 2025. The case involved a 9,054 m2 land parcel of Kurla, Mumbai, that Indian Cork Mills (ICM), through its possession since 1970, had been encroached by hutment dwellers. With time, a slum emerged, and the region was declared an SR Area in March 2011. Its acquisition was demanded by the Tarabai Society as a representative of the slum dwellers in order to be redeveloped. Although ICM was several times offered (in 2013, 2015, 2016) to develop the land under an SR Scheme, it has never been invited or supported. The Bombay High Court declared the acquisition invalid and asked the SRA to listen to the proposal made by ICM. The Supreme Court affirmed that decision, affirming the preferential first-right to redevelop of the landowner, requiring such notice-cum-invitation, and that acquisition under Section 14 must first be effected with a specific notice and with a reasonable time. It rejected the appeals, allowed ICM 120 days to submit a new SR Scheme and instructed the SRA and State to act on it within 60 days. Legal analysis and commentaries on that day, 25 August 2025, addressed and strengthened the legal decision of the Supreme Court--underlining the new doctrine of the first-right in Chapter I-A of the Slums Act, and the procedural protections they presented.