Supreme Court · [2017] 14 S.C.R. 68 · Decided 23 December 2017
Union of India v. Vijay Krishna Uniyal (D) Through LRS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- [2017] 14 S.C.R. 68
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 16949/2017
- Decided
- 23 December 2017
- Bench
- KURIAN JOSEPH, A.M. KHANWILKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 100; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Government Land: Land in possession, on 'Old Grant' terms - Notice for C resumption of the land - Suit for permanent injunction - Seeking order restraining the State (defendant) and its officials from dispossessing him from suit property - Claiming title/ownership of the property vide Also asserted occupancy rights and ownership rights on account of long and undisturbed possession - Plea of the defendant-appellant was that the land in D question was covered by Old Grant for national defence requirement, ownership whereof belonged to the defendant-appellant - Trial court as well
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