In Brief
M. Durga Singh and others appealed against the dismissal of their land grabbing case seeking to evict respondents from about 500 square yards in Hyderabad. The Supreme Court upheld the Special Court's dismissal, finding the appellants failed to prove they owned the property and that respondents were land grabbers. The judgment was barred by res judicata and estoppel from prior suits. The land's location, area, and boundaries were vague and unidentifiable. The Court also criticized the appellants for filing multiple suits in civil courts after the Land Grabbing Act came into force in 1982, when they should have proceeded directly under that Act.
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