Reliance gets relief from Supreme Court in land dispute with BPCL

The Supreme Court has stayed trial proceedings in a decades-old land dispute between Reliance Industries Ltd. (RIL) and Bharat Petroleum Corporation Ltd. (BPCL), which was pending before the Additional Senior Civil Judge in Jamnagar.

A Bench of Justices Pankaj Mithal and Prasanna B. Varale granted interim relief to Reliance while hearing its appeal challenging a May 9 Gujarat High Court order that permitted BPCL to amend its plaint to seek a declaration of title, recovery of possession, and mesne profits over land in Moti Khavdi. 

The dispute dates back to the early 1990s when Gujarat allotted over 349 hectares to BPCL for a terminal; Reliance, or its predecessor, is accused of encroaching part of this land.

[Reliance Industries Limited V BPCL]