D.N. VENKATARAYAPPA & ANR. vs STATE OF KARNATAKA & ORS.

The Supreme Court upheld the Karnataka High Court's ruling that the petitioners' claim of adverse possession was invalid due to insufficient pleading of crucial facts necessary to establish such a claim. The Court reiterated that adverse possession requires the claimant to assert a hostile title against the true owner, which was not demonstrated in this case. The Court confirmed the constitutionality of the Karnataka Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prohibition of Transfer of Certain Lands) Act, 1977, and upheld the concurrent findings of the lower authorities regarding the voidability of the sales made to the petitioners under the Act.