Supreme Court of India

The State of Telangana v. M.A. Garden Function Hall

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Bench Prashant Kumar Mishra and Shree Chandrashekhar JJ.
Decided 16 September 2026

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the impugned order passed by the learned Single Judge on 12.09.2025 in Writ Petition Nos.27715 and 27718 of 2025 and the impugned judgment passed by the Division Bench on 30.12.2025 in Writ Appeal Nos.1031 and 1032 of 2025 are set aside, without interfering with the State’s action of locking the premises. … The Appeals are accordingly allowed.

Judgment, 11 and 13

In brief

The Kishan Chand Foundation Trust, claiming title to about 4678 sq. m. in Gaganmahal Village, Hyderabad under a 1968 sale deed, was served notice under Section 7 of the Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905 and later an order under Section 6 directing delivery of possession. Its civil suit was dismissed for want of pecuniary jurisdiction and its appeal for non-prosecution; a Single Judge quashed the Section 6 and 7 proceedings, but a Division Bench set that aside on 07.09.2022, holding that a writ court cannot record findings on possession or title where facts are seriously disputed and that statutory appeal and revision remedies existed.…

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