Injunction for Blocked Water Channel: Legal Rights

2025 0 Supreme(Ker) 2608

Then filled it with ordinary earth along with 9 cents of land on the eastern side of the water channel and the western side of the water stream/channel of the other property and constructed a wall. ... According to the petitioner, there was a water channel as evident in Ext.P6, which was encroached and blocked by 10th respondent and had unauthorisedly constructed a drai....

2021 Supreme(Online)(KER) 43746

The learned Standing Counsel submitted that there is a water chal flowing through the property of the petitioner which, if blocked, may result in unnecessary water logging problem in the area. ... The petitioner is aggrieved by the condition stipulated in Ext.P6 that the petitioner should leave an opening in the compound wall so as to facilitate free flow of water through the water channel#HL_EN....

2021 Supreme(Online)(MAD) 12676

It is submitted that the Theerthanpettai Village the place where main combined channel got divided into two sub-channels, group of people belonging to Annavasal tank blocked the divided sub-channel leading to Kilankattur tank with sand and shrubs. ... 8.From the above, it is clear that what is sought to be shared is the excess water from the river Vaigai. To get the excess water is rare....

He cut a channel across the field of the accused inflicting on him the loss of one acre of his field. The accused blocked this channel. He was prosecuted evidently on the footing that a worm should not turn. ... There is a channel from this tank extending up to the culvert between the 13th and the 14th mileposts. From this culvert there is no channel to the stretch of fields and water#HL_EN....

2025 Supreme(Online)(Ker) 45311

Panchayat to take appropriate action in accordance with law, if it is ultimately found that any natural water channel is blocked deliberately by the parties. ... flow occurred mainly due to the illegal reclamation of the water channel by the plaintiffs. ... SufÏce to say, the inter-party judgments between the the appellant and respondents will not prevent the Panchayat from taking appropriate action in ac....

2022 Supreme(Online)(MAD) 37623

blocked. ... Further there is an encroachment on the Sy.Nos. 267/5A, 6, 4C2A, 4C2B, 4C1, 4A, 267/2 of the supply channel which is adjacent to the Thiruchuli to Parthibanur Road, hence, the said supply channel from Maraiyur tank to Sethurayanedal tank is also completely blocked. ... to the Sethurayanendal tank and later which was completely blocked by raising construction. ... Further, it is also categori....

If, as it appears to be the case, the intervention of the Assistant Government Agent had been sought successfully to compel the appellant to desist from blocking up the channel sufficient material at the Kachcheri ought to have been available to fix the character of the channel as an irrigation work ... According to the sketch put in evidence the water which feeds the channel in question comes from....

A large quantity of silt was carried along the drains in the defendant's land which he had cleared and planted with rubber into a water channel in the plaintiff's field; the channel was blocked and eventually breached, and the gilt overflowed into the field and rendered it unfit for ... It is well established by the evidence in the case that a large quantity of silt had been carried along the drains in the defendant....

2025 Supreme(Online)(AP) 1006

viz., motor engines/motor pumps, for drawing water from the irrigation channel. ... Despite the same, it is stated the petitioners have blocked the passage of water from Venkatapathi Channel and diverted the same to the petitioners’ land which is an unauthorized Ayacut. The said diversion causes hardship to the tail- end Ayacutdars. ... They shall remove the motor engines that are said to have been insta....

2022 Supreme(Online)(Mad) 50117

The learned counsel for the petitioner has further contended that a channel exists southwards which directly connects to the sea. However, the said channel remains blocked in view of the dumping of wastage by the nearby industry. 4. ... However, the learned counsel for the petitioner submits that he is running a salt pan, which is located just west of the drainage channel. Due to over flowing of the drainage cha....

2022 0 Supreme(Mad) 1519

In the photographs, there is a construction which seems to have blocked the free flow of water through the irrigation channel. 4. The petitioner has filed photographs of the subject irrigation channel.

2019 0 Supreme(Mad) 276

None of the authorities have even raised a little finger as to the existence of Detailed/Plan Marked Channel is not fixed ad it could be varied'. The supply of water through this Land was restricted to a short period. As far as the present case is concerned, in the sworn Counter Affidavit of the 3rd Respondent (erstwhile District Collector, Kancheepuram) dated 10.04.2018 at paragraph 3, it is, in a crystalline fashion, mentioned that '... Also, the present District Collector, in his Counter, a....

2018 0 Supreme(All) 624

From the evidence on record it is established that on the date of occurrence of the incident the accused appellants were irrigating their field. The accused appellants had blocked water channel which was going to the field of the deceased to cause loss to their crop. Admittedly, the deceased Chheda Lal cut and diverted the water flow from which the accused appellants were irrigating their field. In the morning when the complainant reached on the spot they found that the accus....

2016 0 Supreme(AP) 297

Two principles thus emerge: firstly that an owner of land is entitled to collect and impound all surface water passing over his land and secondly, that no prescriptive right can be acquired in respect of such water against the servient owner. In other words, unless the water flows through a defined channel no right can be acquired either by lost grant or prescription to the use of such water.

2015 0 Supreme(Ker) 1164

3. No water channel shall be obstructed in the process.