“An open secret”: the Supreme Court has remarked on how often litigants colourize civil disputes into criminal offences, as it quashed a cheating FIR against a power of attorney holder. New Delhi: Quashing an FIR and all consequential proceedings against a power of attorney holder in a land sale dispute, the Supreme Court has held […]
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a challenge to the demolition of structures raised on agricultural land within the Chandigarh Periphery ‘Control Area’, holding that a General Power of Attorney or similar document confers no title and cannot regularise unauthorised construction. Livelihood, the Court held, cannot be a licence to violate the periphery-control law. Only the unauthorised structures, not the land, are to be removed.
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has ruled that advocates are not required to verify whether a power of attorney (PoA) given to them by a litigant is genuine. This decision was made by a bench comprising Justices AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, who clarified that lawyers should only check the document’s authenticity if they have valid reasons to doubt it.
