SANJAY DHAR
Mst Zoona Begum – Appellant
Versus
Ghulam Mohammad Sheikh – Respondent
JUDGMENT
The petitioner, through the medium of present petition, has invoked the supervisory jurisdiction of this Court under Article 227 of the Constitution of India for impugning order dated 12.04.2025 passed by the learned Civil Judge/Munsiff, Sogam, Kupwara (hereinafter for short “the trial court”), whereby the application of respondent No.2 seeking permission to raise construction on a portion of the suit property, has been allowed.
2. It appears that the petitioner/plaintiff has filed a suit for declaration, injunction and partition along with the relief of separate possession against the respondents/defendants in respect of land measuring 47 kanals and 01 marla comprised in various khasra numbers situated at Estate Surigam Lolab, before the learned trial court. In the plaint, the petitioner/plaintiff has alleged that the parties to the suit are the legal heirs of estate holder Ahmad Sheikh and after his death long time back, the parties have become joint owners in respect of the suit property. According to the petitioner/plaintiff, the suit property is unpartitioned and she being the rightful share holder of the suit property is entitled in law to claim her right to separate
Ex-parte ad-interim injunction must be confined to limits mentioned in injunction order itself.
A co-owner in exclusive possession of a joint property may raise construction on their portion without infringing on the rights of other co-owners.
The court upheld that in partition suits, a party's construction on disputed property contradicts status quo orders unless clear title and urgency are established.
A co-sharer in exclusive possession of a portion of joint property has the right to construct on that portion without interference from other co-sharers, provided that the construction does not infri....
A co-sharer in possession of joint land cannot be restrained from construction on their area without an official partition, particularly if prior consent to construction exists.
A co-owner seeking injunction must establish injury or inconvenience caused by the act complained of and the balance of convenience. Clean hands and equitable conduct are essential in seeking injunct....
A co-owner cannot be permitted to continue with the construction over the undivided property without the consent and concurrence of the other co-owners.
Co-sharers in joint property can alienate their shares and raise constructions on their portions, subject to partition adjustments; injunctions against such actions are not maintainable.
The High Court's supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 is limited to correcting grave derelictions of duty, not re-evaluating evidence or substituting conclusions of lower courts.
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