Bina Bhatia v. Divyalok Co. Operative Housing Society Ltd. and 2 Ors.
Case brief
What is this about?
Search terms: Article 226; mandamus; Index II rectification; registered Gift Deed dated 26 March 2022; mutation of name in revenue record; Divyalok Co-operative Housing Society Ltd.; Flat No. 902 Malabar Hill Mumbai; gift by father to daughter; sibling objection by Respondent No.2; Gift Deed challenge pending before Civil Court; Joint Sub Registrar Mumbai City-I; grievance redressed - nothing survives; petition allowed without adjudicating inter se dispute; independence of future civil suit proceedings. Relevant for writ petitions rendered infructuous by subsequent revenue recording and for orders preserving the autonomy of civil courts in gift deed disputes between co-heirs.
What did the court decide?
Petition allowed in the aforesaid terms; the grievance stood redressed as the Petitioner's name had been recorded in the revenue record, with the clarification that the inter se dispute was left open for independent decision by the Civil Court.