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Property Disputes Civil Court Has Primacy Over Revenue Authorities: HC
Kashmir Observer
|DECEMBER 2, 2025 ISSUE
The High Court of J&K and Ladakh on Monday quashed a series of orders issued by a revenue authority, holding that such actions could not stand once a civil court was already seized of the matter.
Emphasizing the settled legal position that the jurisdiction of the civil court was “superior to, and overrides, that of the revenue authorities” in disputes involving title, possession, or civil rights over immovable prope
This story is from the DECEMBER 2, 2025 ISSUE edition of Kashmir Observer.
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