The Impact Of An Unregistered Sale Agreement On Title

INTRODUCTION

The Supreme Court of India in its judgement of Mahnoor Fatima Imran v. Visweswara Infrastructure (P) Ltd.¹, while dealing with the relief of dispossession against the State reitereated well-established principles regarding claim of ownership and possession on the basis of agreements to sell, General Power of Attorney and subsequent validation by conveyances. The Court passed a common judgment and order in a group of petitions challenging Telangana High Court's findings on ownership and title over a disputed property.

FACTS

The instant case revolved around dispossession of the writ petitioners from the land comprising an area of about 53 acres situated in Survey No.83/2 of Raidurg Panmaktha, Village Serilingampalle Mandal, Ranga Reddy District ("subject land"), which was a part of larger parcel of land being 525 acres 31 guntas, which originally belonged to 11 individuals who executed a registered General Power of Attorney in favour of