LAWS(SC)-2004-9-129

DRAUPADI DEVI Vs. UNION OF INDIA

Decided On September 09, 2004
DRAUPADI DEVI Appellant
V/S
UNION OF INDIA Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) Civil Appeal No. 3862 of 2001:

(2.) The plaintiff instituted a suit in 1960 before the Civil Court at Delhi which ultimately came to be transferred to the Original Side of the Delhi High Court and was disposed of by a learned Single Judge. The suit was for declaration of title to the property being land and building situated at 3, Mansingh Road, New Delhi.

(3.) By an indenture of lease dated 13-7-1921, Khan Bahadur Abdul Hamid, the then Chief Minister of Kapurthala State, had been granted a perpetual lease of the plot of land situate at 3, Mansingh Road, New Delhi. He raised a construction thereupon called 'Kapurthala House'. It is this land together with the structures thereupon which is the subject matter of the suit and shall henceforth be referred to as 'the suit property'.