Retired Justice Gautam Patel has declared Section 39A of Goa's Town and Country Planning Act "fundamentally unconstitutional," arguing it strips community decision-making power, replacing it with the chief town planner's "godlike wisdom." He criticizes the law for making Goans irrelevant and infantilizing the populace, likening the situation to "conquest" and advocating for referendums over mere objections to land-use changes.
Justice Patel: Sec 39A is frontally, fundamentally unconstitutional
Written on 03/14/2026