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Alladin Charities and Zakat Wakf v. Mohammed Saleem alias Mohd. Wajid Ali and Another

Civil Appeal · 2026 INSC 1122Decided 14 Oct 2026
Civil Appeal No. 13762 of 2026
Justice S.V.N. Bhatti · Justice N.V. Anjaria

Background

In 2012, a litigant sued for specific performance of a 2001 sale agreement over a Hyderabad shop property and won an uncontested decree in 2015. When he tried to take possession in 2016, a charitable trust already in physical possession objected, claiming the land was actually Waqf property traceable to a royal grant from the former Nizam of Hyderabad. Both the Executing Court and the Telangana High Court rejected the trust's objection for failing to prove its claim and using the wrong procedural rule.

Decision Breakdown

The Supreme Court held the lower courts applied the wrong legal standard. Relying on its 2025 ruling in Periyammal v. V. Rajamani, it clarified that a stranger to a decree resisting possession is entitled to a full inquiry under Order XXI Rule 101 CPC into the actual right, title, or interest in the property, using the wrong procedural label is not a ground for dismissal. Neither lower court had actually compared the historical boundary descriptions across the relevant deeds to establish whether this was even the same property the trust had defended in earlier litigation. The matter was remanded for a fresh, thorough inquiry.

Lesson Learnt

When someone not a party to a case is in physical possession of a property and objects to it being handed over under someone else's decree, courts must investigate the competing ownership claims on the merits rather than dismissing the objection on a technicality.

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