The High Court of Chhattisgarh, in a significant judgment, has affirmed that the renewal of a government lease is not an automatic or vested right and can be refused based on breaches of the lease conditions. A Division Bench comprising Chief Justice Ramesh Sinha and Justice Bibhu Datta Guru dismissed a writ appeal filed by the Christian Womans Board of Mission, upholding a Single Judge’s order that rejected the Mission’s challenge to the non-renewal of its lease and subsequent dispossession from land in Bilaspur.

The Court [2025:CGHC:54533-DB] held that the appellants failed to establish locus standi and that the “admitted lease violations, commercial exploitation, sale and sub-letting of the land” justified the State’s refusal to renew the lease, which was originally granted for cha

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