STATE OF RAJASTHAN vs HARPHOOL SINGH (DEAD)THROUGH HIS LRS. — C.A. No. 5188/1996

Summary of State of Rajasthan v. Harphool Singh (2000) The Supreme Court reversed lower court judgments favoring the respondent's adverse possession claim over state-owned land. The Court found the plaintiff failed to establish the 30-year continuous, hostile, and open possession required by law—evidence was limited to oral assertions and utility bills, with the critical claim of the father's earlier possession first introduced at trial, not in the original plaint. The Court held adverse possession claims over public property require rigorous proof of legal ingredients and cannot be established on perfunctory material or surmises. This case analysis is maintained by casestatus.in based on publicly available court records.