Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 497 · Decided 9 July 2024
Ujagar Singh (Dead) THR. LRS. & ANR. v. Punjab State & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 497 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 611
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1365/2011
- Decided
- 9 July 2024
- Bench
- VIKRAM NATH, PRASHANT KUMAR MISHRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Whether the High Court fell in error in dismissing the suit primarily on the ground that the Civil Court's jurisdiction was barred by s.21 of the Punjab Land Reforms Act, 1972 when the issue of jurisdiction was not pressed by the respondents during the trial Act, 1972 - s.21 - Jurisdiction of Civil Courts, if barred - Appellants filed suit for declaration and perpetual injunction, asserting that the land in question was exempt under the Act - They sought declaration that the land belonged to the religious and charitable
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