Allowed
Sri Thukaram Kottari v. State of Karnataka
Karnataka HCWP/18500/2011
Case brief
AI extract
What is this about?
This court allowed a writ petition filed by an estate owner challenging an eviction order passed by the Deputy Commissioner. The bench held that since the underlying complaint alleged mere unauthorized occupation and not illegal transfer of land, the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act could not be invoked.
What did the court decide?
The order passed by the Deputy Commissioner directing the Assistant Commissioner to evict Thukaram Khotari from the land in question was quashed. The Writ Petition was allowed.