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 : 2025 Local Law (CG) 857 : 2025:CGHC:54786 The Chhattisgarh High Court on Tuesday restored a trial court’s decision that dismissed a long-running suit over a small parcel of “abadi” land in Rajim, finding the first appellate court had reversed that judgment without adequate reasoning and on the basis of flimsy evidence. In a…
Citation : 2005 Local Law (CG) 57 The Chhattisgarh High Court has dismissed a second appeal filed by landholders from Bemetara, upholding concurrent findings that civil courts cannot revisit surplus land determinations made under the M.P. (now C.G.) Ceiling on Agricultural Holdings Act, 1960. Justice Sunil Kumar Sinha held that no substantial question of law…
The Chhattisgarh High Court has refused to interfere in a property dispute where the appellant claimed over-writing in a sale-deed and argued that the suit had abated after the original owner’s death. Justice R.S. Garg heard the matter on admission. The appellant, represented by counsel Shri Agrawal, challenged the First Appellate Court’s reliance on sale-deed…