LAND ALREADY MORTGAGED WITH THE BANK-STORY OF PURCHASER AND OF OUR JUDICIAL SYSTEM

A 108-year-old man in Maharashtra died just before the Supreme Court agreed to hear his appeal in a land dispute case that he had been pursuing since 1968.

A 108-year-old man in Maharashtra died just days before the Supreme Court admitted his appeal in a land dispute case that he had been pursuing since 1968. The case had remained pending before the Bombay High court for 27 years, before being dismissed in 2015.

Counsel appearing for petitioner Sopan Narsinga Gaikwad had appealed to the Supreme Court that the delay in filing the appeal against the Bombay High Court order may be viewed from the perspective that the aged man belonged to a rural area and had learned about the High Court’s verdict much later. Afterwards, the petitioner had got stuck as Covid-19 pandemic hit the country, the petitioner’s counsel Viraj Kadam added.

The Supreme Court agreed to hear the plea on July 12.

“Unfortunately, the man, who pursued his case right from trial court to Supreme Court was not alive to hear that his matter has been agreed to be heard. He had expired before the court took up the matter on July 12 but the information about his demise from the rural area came just after the hearing.

Sopan Narsinga Gaikwad had purchased a plot of land in 1968 through a registered sale deed. Afterwards, Gaikwad came to know that the plot of land was already mortgaged to a bank in lieu of the loan taken by the original owner.

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