<p>The high court on Monday stayed an order of the Land Tribunal passed in December 1980 while hearing a petition challenging the encroachment of Pattandur Agrahara Lake.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Tribunal in its order under the Land Reforms Act, 1963, had granted a private party the 11 acres and 20 guntas of land .</p>.<p class="bodytext">After a series of legal battle over the ownership of the land, the state represented by its revenue department had recently approached the high court alleging fraud in the lake encroachment issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It argued that the basic document on which the encroacher has obtained court decrees and orders to possess the lake, which is a supposed Land Tribunal Order, and the Land Tribunal has no jurisdiction to grant away a lake bed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The case is adjourned to July 24, with interim order staying the land tribunal order until further consideration.</p>
<p>The high court on Monday stayed an order of the Land Tribunal passed in December 1980 while hearing a petition challenging the encroachment of Pattandur Agrahara Lake.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The Tribunal in its order under the Land Reforms Act, 1963, had granted a private party the 11 acres and 20 guntas of land .</p>.<p class="bodytext">After a series of legal battle over the ownership of the land, the state represented by its revenue department had recently approached the high court alleging fraud in the lake encroachment issue.</p>.<p class="bodytext">It argued that the basic document on which the encroacher has obtained court decrees and orders to possess the lake, which is a supposed Land Tribunal Order, and the Land Tribunal has no jurisdiction to grant away a lake bed.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The case is adjourned to July 24, with interim order staying the land tribunal order until further consideration.</p>