Bengaluru: A high court division bench ruled that about five acres of land abutting Cantonment Railway Station in Vasanthnagar area belongs to the railways.The bench noted that in Sept 1997 itself, the city civil court held that railways was the lawful owner of the land, which is part of the 600 acres acquired during British era, and that plaintiff Vazeer Ahmed did not challenge the same and it became final.However, in the private civil litigation of 2006 between Vazeer Ahmed and Amritlal Jain, GPA holder/ purchaser, CTS no. 1047 (subject: 5 acres of land), was not mentioned in the suit. At the same time, during execution proceedings of the same suit in 2013, part of CTS no. 1047 was inserted. On the basis of this tampered schedule, the possession was given to Amritlal Jain and later an application was filed to alter revenue records in his name.Thereafter, the single bench directed the authorities to consider his request. Shocked, revenue department and railways filed separate writ appeals against the single bench order passed on April 25, 2025.After perusing the material on record, the division bench noted that unexplained insertion of CTS no. 1047 reference is absent from the plaint, sale agreement and the writ petition itself. “We are of the considered opinion that the petitioners misled the single bench and obtained the order by suppressing incorporation of the words…” the division bench of Justices DK Singh and G Basavaraja noted.
