Illegal Occupation of Shamilat/Kahcharaie Land Cannot Ripen into Legal Right: Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court
The High Court of Jammu and Kashmir and Ladakh has reiterated that illegal occupation of common village land can never crystallise into a legal right, even if permanent structures have been raised. A Division Bench comprising Justice Sindhu Sharma and Justice Shahzad Azeem held that the prohibition on encroachment upon Shamilat and Kahcharaie land existed even before the 2020 amendment to Section 133(2) Land Revenue Act, Samvat 1996, and that…
