In Brief
RBANMS Educational Institution, a 148-year-old charitable trust in possession of land since 1905, challenged a suit for injunction filed by respondents claiming rights under an alleged agreement to sell dated 2018. The respondents sought to prevent the institution from alienating the property, but neither the true vendors nor the respondents themselves were in possession. The Supreme Court held that an agreement to sell confers no interest in immovable property under Section 54 of the Transfer of Property Act. The respondents, being mere agreement holders not in possession, lacked locus standi to sue a third party in settled possession. The Court allowed the appeal and rejected the plaint under Order VII Rule 11 CPC, emphasizing that such legally barred suits must be terminated at the threshold to prevent abuse of judicial process.
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