Sunil Kumar Singh @ Sunil Kumar v. The State of Bihar
Case brief
What is this about?
Patna High Court, CWJC No. 3203 of 2025, decided 18-03-2025, Coram: Justice Nawneet Kumar Pandey. Writ petition by three petitioners seeking land measurement and appointment of Anchal Amin by the Circle Officer, Danapur, police force to construct a boundary wall, and protection against local muscemen allegedly grabbing ancestral land, was dismissed. Court held the dispute was a private one between a builder and a landlord over the terms and conditions of an agreement to sell, and that writ jurisdiction cannot be invoked to settle disputes between two private persons. Keywords: writ jurisdiction, private dispute, builder, landlord, agreement to sell, Anchal Amin, land measurement, boundary wall, land grabbing, police protection, maintainability of writ petition.
What did the court decide?
On perusal of paragraphs 5 and 6 of the writ petition, the dispute transpires to be related to the builder and the landlord in respect of the terms and conditions of the agreement to sell between them.