Supreme Court of India

Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd. v. The State of Telangana & Ors.

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Reported as [2022] 17 S.C.R. 376
Bench Hemant Gupta and Vikram Nath JJ.
Decided 13 September 2022

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above facts, the Revenue Divisional Officer has no jurisdiction to exercise powers U/s 9 of A.P. (T.A.) Abolition of Inams Act, 1955 and declare a person as owner of inam lands, much less a person who has no locus standi at all.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Telangana Charitable and Hindu Religious Institutio ns and Endowments Act, 1987– ss.75, 80, 82 – Telangana Chari table and Hindu Religious Institutions and Endowments Immovable Proper ties and other Rights (Other than Agricultural Land) Leases and Licenses Rules, 2003– r.15– High Court inter alia ordered the appellant-lessee to be evicted under the 1987 Act – Whether the land in question is agricultural land to which the 1987 Act is applicable and the le ase in favor of the lessee stands cancelled in terms of s.82(1) of the Act; and whether the parties went to trial with the knowle dge that

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