Supreme Court of India
State of Goa v. Narayan V. Gaonkar & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
In view of the foregoing discussion, the appeal of the appellant is allowed, the counter-claim filed by the defendants in Suit No.64 of 1995 is allowed.
Judgment, page 20
From the headnote
Suit – for declaration of ownership – The plaintiffs- respondents filed a suit for a direction to delete the name of ‘Forest department’ from the survey entry No. 11/1 of a Village and to declare the plaintiffs as the exclusive owners of the said property – The defendants-appellant, the State, had filed a written statement- cum-counter claim refuting the claim of the plaintiffs and claimed that entire suit property was in possession and belonged to the Forest Department – In the counter-claim, it was pleaded that plaintiffs were wrongly recorded as co-occupants – The Trial court dismissed the…
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