In Brief
The Supreme Court upheld a High Court decision dismissing an occupancy rights claim under the Karnataka Land Reforms Act. After a Tribunal rejected the appellant's original claim for occupancy rights in one parcel of land, he sought to amend his application to claim rights in a different parcel with different survey number and village—over a year after the statutory cut-off date and only after the Tribunal had already disposed of his case. The Court held that amendments cannot be entertained after a Tribunal adjudicates an application. The attempted claim constituted an impermissible fresh application, not a legitimate amendment, as it sought to circumvent the mandatory statutory deadline through indirect means.
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