ORDER :

The petitioner – plaintiff filed the present writ petition against the order dated 30.10.2018 on I.A. No.6 in O.S. No.47/2010 on the file of the 1st Additional Civil Judge, Mangaluru, Dakshina Kannada allowing the application filed by the respondents – defendants under Section 20 of the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act 2011 to transfer the case to the Special Court under the Karnataka Land Grabbing Prohibition Act, 2011 (hereinafter called ‘the Act’ for short).

I FACTS OF THE CASE

2. The mother of the plaintiff petitioner herein came in hostile possession of the suit property bearing door No.8140A consisting of a residential house in the year 1977. Thereafter, the plaintiff petitioner improved the said house by spending huge amount of money, obtained electricity connection, paying taxes regularly to the local body and he is in possession of the same continuously. The hostile possession of the plaintiff, renovation, planting of coconut trees and other improvements made over the suit property are well within the knowledge of the defendants. The petitioner is in actual, hostile continuous and uninterrupted possession over the suit schedule property for more than 30 years a