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Under the Directive Principles of State Policy, Article 39(b) places an obligation on the state to create a policy towards securing the ownership and control of the material resources of the community and distributing it as best to serve the common good
The case currently before the SC arose out of a challenge to the 1986 amendment to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Act, 1976 (MHADA) by owners of ‘cessed’ properties in Mumbai.
New Delhi witnessed the initiation of the interpretation process of Article 39(b) of the Constitution by a nine-judge bench of the Supreme Court. The objective is to ascertain if the directive principle permits the government to handle and redistribute privately owned properties under the guise of material resources of the community for the betterment of the common good.