The High Court of Chhattisgarh has allowed a second appeal in a decades-old land dispute from Janjgir-Champa district and ruled that the Shikari community is not a Scheduled Tribe in Pamgarh tehsil. The court set aside a first appellate court order that had wrongly treated the Shikari caste as a Scheduled Tribe and upheld special…
February 03, 2026 – The High Court of Chhattisgarh has dismissed a second appeal in a land dispute that had continued for nearly five decades, holding that mere possession of land based on an unproved agreement to sell does not create ownership rights. The Court also clarified that permissive possession can never become adverse possession….
Citation : 2007 Local Law (CG) 150 The Chhattisgarh High Court has set aside two lower court orders and restored a decades-old land dispute to the trial court, finding that a “pedantic and hyper-technical” approach by the courts below had caused a complete failure of justice. Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh delivered the ruling in a…
In a judgment that stresses the practical consequences of long inaction, the Chhattisgarh High Court has dismissed a second appeal by plaintiffs who claimed title and possession over a small parcel of land bought in 1967. Justice Dilip Raosaheb Deshmukh concluded that the plaintiffs’ title, though originally acquired by registered sale deed, was extinguished when…