India, March 19 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday dismissed a suit filed by a city businessman, who had challenged the termination of a century-old lease of 251 acres of salt pan land in Kanjurmarg.

A single judge bench of Justice Sandeep Marne allowed a plea filed by the salt commissioner, an officer of the central government, for dismissal of the businessman's suit pending before the City Civil Court, holding that no cause of action survived for the suit as the lease had expired in 2016.

The businessman, Maheshkumar Garodia, challenged the termination of the lease for two land parcels totalling to 251 acres and the subsequent transfer of possession of 15 hectares of land for the metro car shed.

Both plots were leased out Garodia fo...