Calcutta High Court — Property encroachment dispute with survey order

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1. News1 Sep 2026

   Survey necessary to bridge the gap between paper documents and ground reality, Calcutta High Court directs completion of trial in 6 months

   Justice Uday Kumar in his order dated 28 August rejected the lower court's decision dated 1 February 2025, ...

   Explanation in simple terms

   A court in Calcutta is handling a dispute over who owns or can use a piece of land. The court ordered a survey to measure the actual land and compare it with official documents, since what's written down sometimes doesn't match what exists on the ground. The court also gave both sides six months to finish the legal case.

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2. News1 Sep 2026

   ‘Papers can’t show encroachment’: Calcutta High Court orders survey in property dispute

   5 min readNew DelhiSep 1, 2026 12:49 PM IST The Calcutta High Court held that oral testimony and documents were insufficient to capture ground-level realities in an encroachment dispute.

   Explanation in simple terms

   A property dispute reached India's Calcutta High Court where one party claimed someone was illegally occupying their land. The court found that documents alone couldn't prove whether the encroachment actually happened, so they ordered a physical survey of the property. A survey means experts will visit the land and measure it to determine the true boundaries and see who is actually occupying what.

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