Supreme Court of India

Jhummamal Alias Devandas v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Ors.

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Reported as [1988] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 584
Bench M.H. Kania J.
Decided 25 August 1988

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, this petition deserves to be allowed.

Judgment, page 5

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of possession of the party as on a particular day, It confers no title to remain in possession of the disputed property, The order is subject to decision of the civil court, The unsuccessfui party therefore must. get relief only in the civil court, He may move the civii court with properly constituted suit, He may file a suit for declaration and prove a better right to possession, The. civil court has jurisdiction, to give a !inding different from that which the Magistrate has reached·, (5890- ] · The ratio of the decision in Ram Sumer Puri Mahant v, State of U. P. is that a party should not

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