The Supreme Court has passed a ruling directing the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) to acquire 1.50 acres of land from plot no 438 in Salisbury Park, which had been reserved in the 1966 as well as the 1987 Development Plan (DP) for the purpose of developing a garden and playground. However, the civic administration had preferred to stay away from the acquisition citing "paucity of funds' as reason. The landowners had served the PMC a purchase notice for failing to acquire the land within the designated time. Dr V P Taneja, Major Desmond Braganza and three other residents of Salisbury Park had filed a petition in the Bombay High Court against a notification dated February 12, 1993 for dereserving the plot. In 1986, the respondents Raju Jethmalani, Rina Madan, Dhamoo Uttam Singh and four others had purchased this property and initiated the proposal for dereservation. The Bombay High Court had passed orders asking the respondents to provide an alternate, fully developed garden in the vicinity of survey number 438. It also held that public interest should be served by an alternate device if a more or less similar adjacent and suitable land was provided for the same purpose as marked in the DP. The respondents had preferred a civil application seeking clarification of some points in the court order. Regarding the word