It took nearly half a century to reach this conclusion, which, from the very start, was an obvious legal position and ought to have been held as such throughout. The coin was flipped so many times that the final result felt like a lucky draw, full of uncertainty about who win this battle.
We often hear that it is the land or an immovable property that is passed down through the generations, but at the same time, land/ property gets passed down together with the disputes, which we as lawyers then call a legacy case or a legacy dispute. Another one in the long list of legacy cases related to a Land dispute is Hemlata v. Tukaram.
The story in this case started with a mortgage on a property, which was later sold to another party to repay the loans. The sale was done by way of a registered sale deed. Seemed like a simple sale deed, but facts were manipulated in a way that the sale deed was challenged, and the challenge went to the appellate court, to the high court, and finally, the
