New Delhi, May 27 -- The Supreme Court lauded an interim order passed by Justice Sharmila U. Deshmukh of the Bombay High Court in a decades-old family property dispute, describing it as "very fair, just and equitable", while dismissing a Special Leave Petition (SLP) filed against the same.
A Bench of Justice Surya Kant and Justice Dipankar Datta on Monday refused to entertain the SLP challenging the Bombay High Court's order dated April 30, 2025, which lifted the lis pendens restriction on a disputed property in Mumbai.
The High Court had observed that both parties had already acted upon an interim arbitration award from 1975, and the lis pendens had outlived its purpose.
The Supreme Court praised the quality of the High Court's reasoni...