Supreme Court · 2011 INSC 731 · Decided 30 September 2011
State of Haryana v. Mukesh Kumar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2011 INSC 731 · [2011] 14 S.C.R. 211
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 28034/2011
- Decided
- 30 September 2011
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, DEEPAK VERMA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Adverse possession: A B Property rights- Claim for, by way of adverse possession C - Whether the State/Police Department, which is in charge of protection of life, liberty and property of people can be permitted to grab the land and property of its own citizens under the banner of the plea - Held: If the protectors of law become the grabbers of the property (land and building), then, people will be left with no protection D and there would be total anarchy in the entire country - It is indeed a very disturbing and dangerous trend and must be arrested without further loss of time
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