Sri.Sageer Ahmed Noorulla v. the State of Karnataka

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Karnataka HC Division Bench writ appeal WA No. 1906 of 2024 (KLR-RES), NC: 2025:KHC:42921-DB, decided 28-10-2025; coram Justice D K Singh (author) and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju. Appellant Sageer Ahmed Noorulla (Sr. Adv. Vivek Subba Reddy with Arpith R Reddy) versus State of Karnataka Revenue Department, Deputy Commissioner Bengaluru Urban District, Assistant Commissioner Bengaluru North, Tahsildar Bengaluru North Additional Taluk Yelahanka, and private respondents including heirs of Late Syed Ahmed, Syed Mahaboob and Sameena Bhanu, and Hanumantha Rao Basavaraja Basanoor. Subject: ownership and revenue entries over 1 acre 19 1/2 guntas in Sy.No.43, Bellahalli Village, Yelahanka Hobli/Taluk, Bengaluru Urban District. Impugned: learned Single Judge's order dated 31.08.2024 in WP No. 17869/2024, which had challenged the Deputy Commissioner's order dated 25.04.2024 in Revision Petition No.195/20142015. Held: Single Judge ought not to have recorded findings without evidence led by parties, and such findings were unnecessary once parties were relegated to the Civil Court; appeal disposed with liberty to appellant to establish title in appropriate civil proceedings; all contentions left open. Statute: Section 4, Karnataka High Court Act. No cases cited; no monetary quantum.