Karnataka Land Revenue Act

A Forty-Year-Old Land Title Cannot Be Reopened by Recasting the Dispute as Encroachment, Supreme Court Holds

A department reopened a forty-year-old land record on the strength of a third-party complaint that a lake was being encroached upon. The Supreme Court held that framing the dispute as one of public interest does not let a revenue authority sidestep a statutory limitation period that had expired decades earlier.