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Tuesday, September 23, 2025
TopicLand Dispute

Topic: Land Dispute

India’s land acquisition disputes have a way out. Both Japan and Gujarat have used it

India’s archaic land laws fuel delays, cost overruns and gridlock in everything from highways to housing. Something has to give.

Why Punjab & Haryana HC brought up ‘Ardhanarishvara’ to decide decades-old land dispute case

Judge was evaluating spousal testimony in property dispute in Faridabad and upheld lower court order in favour of buyers.

How Yamuna’s shifting course has fuelled a decades-long land ownership tussle between Haryana & UP

Punjab & Haryana HC has directed Surveyor General of India to study the river's changing trajectory & its impact on the 2 states to resolve the ongoing land disputes along its banks.

Armed with land papers, Agra farmer tills park with sunset view of Taj, proposed as ‘cultural hub’

Farmer Munna Lal says his father & uncle were registered cultivators of the land, but it was taken away in urban ceiling action in 1976. However, court ruled in family's favour in 1998.

In Bihar’s Nawada, Dalits live in fear after homes burnt over land feud. ‘Hamein jameen ka parcha chahiye’

About 200 people live in fear in cramped tarpaulin tents not far from their charred homes. As politics takes over, all they want is to go back home.

Political power play, ‘gang rivalry’ & a 600-sq-yard land — saga of Haryana INLD chief’s murder 

INLD’s Haryana chief’s killing in broad daylight earlier this week brought to light the rivalry between Bahadurgarh’s Rathees. At the heart of it was disputed a 640-sq-yard plot. 

Infighting in Bihar BJP exposed, as 1 MLA accuses another, a party MP, of potting to murder him & son

Alinagar MLA Mishri Lal Yadav files FIR claiming Madhubani MP Ashok Yadav & Keoti MLA Murari Mohan Jha sent armed men to his Darbhanga residence over land dispute involving religious leader.

Bihar district courts are swamped with new disputes as land digitisation begins

Since surveyors began work in 20 districts in Bihar six months ago, neighbours are fighting, siblings are turning on each other, and land owners are accusing each other of fraud.

For 31 paise owed to SBI, land deal was stuck for over 2 years. Until Gujarat HC intervened

A pair of brothers bought 79 acres in Sanand taluka in December 2019, but SBI refused to give 'no-dues certificate' to previous owners. HC pulled up bank for 'harassing people'.

A plot & Rs 20L construction aid — what Shillong’s Dalit Sikhs want to move from disputed area

Dalit Sikh families party to Shillong’s Them lew Mawlong land dispute have agreed to relocate provided the Meghalaya government agrees to a list of their demands.

On Camera

Should Goa share Mhadei waters? A living river can’t be divided like property

Asking Goa to give up 4% of a river’s flow to help parched districts seems reasonable, moral. But it masks a deeper ethical problem: who bears the burden of the ‘greater common good’?

Market regulator SEBI clears Adani Group of impropriety alleged by Hindenburg Research

SEBI probe concluded that purported loans and fund transfers were paid back in full and did not amount to deceptive market practices or unreported related party transactions.

India takes a relook at Russian Su-57, but not for its stealth. Here’s why

India exited the Indo-Russian FGFA programme in 2018. But now it might procure at least 2 squadrons of Su-57 aircraft from Russia and evaluate Russian proposal to manufacture them in India.

India doesn’t give walkovers to Pakistan in war. Here’s why it shouldn’t do it in cricket either

Many really smart people now share the position that playing cricket with Pakistan is politically, strategically and morally wrong. It is just a poor appreciation of competitive sport.