In Brief
The Supreme Court held that the Civil Court lacks jurisdiction to entertain suits relating to properties subjected to ceiling proceedings under the Urban Land (Ceiling and Regulation) Act, 1976. The respondents claimed ownership of property vested in the State under the Act's ceiling proceedings and allotted to a hospital. The Court found the Act is a complete, self-contained code with adequate remedies through statutory appeals and explicit or implicit exclusion of Civil Court jurisdiction. Since the respondents failed to file timely objections or avail statutory remedies and had already lost in prior writ proceedings up to the Supreme Court, their subsequent civil suit was barred. The Court restored the Trial Court's dismissal of the suit.
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