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Private property is a fundamental right: Supreme Court -Krishnadas Rajagopal

-The Hindu

'Grabbing private land and claiming it as its own makes the State an encroacher’

A citizen’s right to own private property is a fundamental right. The state cannot take possession of it without following due procedure and authority of law, the Supreme Court has held in a judgment.

The state cannot trespass into the private property of a citizen and then claim ownership of the land in the name of ‘adverse possession’, the court said.

Grabbing private land and then claiming it as its own makes the state an encroacher.

In a welfare state, right to property is a human right, a Bench of Justices Indu Malhotra and Ajay Rastogi declared in their January 8 verdict.

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