my father purchased an open plot vide registered sale deed in 1976 and gift registered it to me in march 2018. I constructed a room and compound wall with locked gate on it in june 2018.
In my absence, my paternal cousins trespassed into property in july by breaking lock, pasting a poster stating they owned the plot and placed their own lock. Same day locals informed me and I filed an FIR against unknown persons stating names on posters matched those of my cousins. Next day police conducted a panchnama and took an eyewitness and a circumstantial witness statements. I broke their lock and placed a new lock. Two days later same cousins filed for an interim and permanent injunction against me from the property in dist court showing a release-deed they obtained from their father surreptitiously in yr 2015 and pictures taken during their trespass as evidence of their ownership and claimed they constructed the compound and room. In my defense I submitted the wall and room construction time pictures, mason statement, material bills as evidence I constructed the wall and room, and 1976 sale-deed and 2018 gift-deed as evidence of my ownership. Meanwhile, based on FIR, police filed charge sheet and magistrate initiate criminal suit in the district sessions court against the cousins.
Both the civil and criminal case are pending in district courts.
Now cousins have submitted a criminal petition in high court seeking quashing of criminal case in district court citing again that they own the property and built the wall and room and that a civil case is pending. The high court has sent me and the public prosecutor a show cause notice by June 04 2019.
What should i expect and do now? Would it suffice if I post a letter to the high-court objecting to the petition describing the reasons. Will I need an advocate? Can I request all the cases be transferred to high court?
Regards.
