Writ petitions are inappropriate for property encroachment disputes that should be settled in civil court.

JUDGMENT

The prayer of the petitioner is not to permit the respondents to construct road through the property belonging to the petitioner covered by Ext.P1 document. It is seen that the grievance raised by the petitioner is that an attempt is made by respondents 3 to 5 to encroach upon the property of the petitioner and to construct a road forcefully. I am of the view that these are matters which the petitioner has to agitate before a competent civil court and not before a writ court. Further, it is to be noted that when the matter came up for consideration on 19.11.2020, an interim order was granted by this Court for a period of two months to enable the petitioner to move the civil court for seeking reliefs sought for in the writ petition.

In view of the above, nothing survives in the writ petition and it is closed.

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