D.Johnson v. The Inspector General of Registration
Case brief
What is this about?
Keywords: fabricated sale deed; impersonation of petitioner's father; Writ of Certiorarified Mandamus; Article 226 Constitution of India; encumbrance register entry removal; Sub-Registrar Thiruporur; District Land Grabbing Cell Kancheepuram; writ petition declined in favour of pending civil suits; liberty to challenge sale deeds before Civil Court; transfer of suits to Chengalpet court within four weeks; disposal of suits within nine months; O.S.No.259 of 2019 / O.S.No.17 of 2022; O.S.No.23 of 2020 / O.S.No.165 of 2023; sale deed No.66 of 2018 dated 03.06.2018; sale deed No.12849 of 2018 dated 22.11.2018; respondents B.Tamizharasi and P.Amudha; Housing Development Finance Corporation (HDFC); petitioner D.Johnson; advocate R.Sreedhar; Special Government Pleader U.Baranidharan; K.S.Parthasarathy for HDFC; judge N. Anand Venkatesh; High Court of Madras; decided 04.03.2025.
What did the court decide?
Both writ petitions disposed of with directions: liberty to the petitioner to challenge the sale deeds before the Civil Court where suits O.S.No.17 of 2022 and O.S.No.165 of 2023 are pending; transfer of the suits to the concerned Court in Chengalpet within four weeks of receipt of a copy of the order; disposal of the suits within nine months thereafter. Sale deeds were not quashed. Connected Miscellaneous Petitions closed; no costs.