THE CURIOUS CASE OF LONGEST RUNNING CASE IN INDIA
THE CURIOUS CASE OF LONGEST RUNNING CASE IN INDIA
CASE NO.1
DOSHIPURA COURT CASE
The case that started in year 1878 and its still running in Supreme Court Of India.
Doshipura court case which
has been pitting Shia Muslims against Sunnis over two acres of land (87,000 sq ft) for
more than a century, is one of the oldest in India.
The dispute revolves around Tazia
processions taken out during Muharram and Shias, numbering around 4,000,
have been trying to assert their right to pray on some plots in Doshipura mohalla but
Sunnis have been resisting.
The Supreme Court directed the administration in Varanasi to construct
a boundary wall around the plot and relocate the two graves elsewhere.But the government of the state of Uttar Pradesh, where Varanasi is located,
told the court that removing the graves could lead to violence and so far,
nothing has been done.
CASE NO.2
Raja Radhakrishna Deb belonged to the landlord elite of Calcutta. Case was
first came to court in 1833.
The matter,
which is now in the
Calcutta High
Court, has been pending for 210 years, making it perhaps the country’s longest-running case.
The
property belonged to Raja Rajkrishna Deb, a 17th-century landlord of Bengal’s Shovabazar
royal family. Now, the Raja’s descendants — some 200 of them — are demanding
it.
The stakes are high — some seven mansions in north Kolkata, nearly
100,000 acres of land in what is now Bangladesh, large tracts of land in at
least three districts of West Bengal, and half of erstwhile Sutanati, one
of the three villages that make up modern Kolkata.
But
all this is still in the hands of a court-appointed receiver. “We are kings in
name only. There is no money even to take care of the temples and do puja,” a
descendent of the raja told newspaper . Incidentally, the Shova
bazar Durga Puja is an institution in Kolkata.
The problems began when Raja Rajkrishna Deb
died in 1823, bequeathing his estate to his seven surviving sons. But the sons
started selling off property to fund their luxurious lifestyles.
The matter first came to court in 1833, when an executor of Rajkrishna
Deb’s will lodged a case to try to stop the sale. After pondering the case for
22 years, the judges appointed a British lawyer to oversee the property and the
case dragged on.
Now the
heirs want it back but legal experts say it won’t be easy for the high court to
take a decision on a case file that’s been gathering dust for nearly two
centuries. National and state boundaries have since changed and a substantial
portion of the land once owned by Raja Rajkrishna Deb
is now in Bangladesh.
This write up is about 2 longest cases running cases in Indian
court. Number one case is about Doshipura Court Case and Case No.2 is Shova - BaZaar
Court Case they are 140 and 210 years old respectively. My video is based upon
below mentioned reports.
Disclaimer: My research is based upon the below mentioned reports.
Please let me know if they are disposed- off.
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