Supreme Court of India

State of Goa v. Narayan V. Gaonkar & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 4 S.C.R. 526
Bench Ashok Bhushan and Navin Sinha JJ.
Decided 4 March 2020

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal of the appellant is allowed, the counter-claim filed by the defendants in Sui t No.64 of 1995 is allowed.

Judgment, page 20

From the headnote

Suit – for declaration of ownership – The plaintiff s- respondents filed a suit for a direction to delete the name of ‘Forest department’ from the survey entry No. 11/1 of a Vil lage and to declare the plaintiffs as the exclusive owners of the said property – The defendants-appellant, the State, had filed a writt en statement- cum-counter claim refuting the claim of the plaintiff s and claimed that entire suit property was in possession and belonged to t he Forest Department – In the counter-claim, it was pleaded t hat plaintiffs were wrongly recorded as co-occupants – The Trial court di

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