Supreme Court Referred Sibling Property Dispute to Mediation

Expressing hope to resolve a “long drawn” property dispute between siblings, the Supreme Court has referred the matter to mediation and appointed its former judge Justice Sudhanshu Dhulia to oversee settlement talks between the warring parties. A bench of Justices J B Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi while hearing two connected special leave petitions arising out of judgments of the Telangana High Court said on February 2, “We are still of the firm view that the parties should sit, talk and reach to an equitable settlement; otherwise, this is going to be a long drawn legal proceedings.”