Supreme Court issues notice to CPI(M) in dispute over land hosting its Kerala headquarters

The Supreme Court on Friday (September 19, 2025) issued notice to the Communist Party of India (Marxist) in connection with a dispute over the execution of a decree concerning the land on which the party’s new Kerala headquarters, AKG Centre, is situated in the State capital of Thiruvananthapuram.

A Bench of Justices Aravind Kumar and Manmohan decided to examine the special leave petition filed by ISRO scientist Bindu but refused to grant any interim relief.

The petition had challenged a Kerala High Court decision of December last year dismissing Ms. Bindu’s plea regarding the 32 cents of land hosting the AKG Centre.

Ms. Bindu, represented by senior advocate V. Chitambaresh, argued that she was deprived of her property for six years through “systematic fraud and malice”.

The land had originally belonged to a private family which had taken a loan from the Finance and Investment Corporation. As the family failed to repay the loan, its six properties were attached.

Ms. Bindu had bought one of the six properties.

However, a local court in Thiruvananthapuram auctioned the property to realise the entire debts.

Ms. Bindu argued that the execution proceedings which culminated in the sale and delivery of the land had violated the explicit terms and mandate of a court decree, and hence, void.

The High Court had rejected allegations, including that the sale was at a “grossly inadequate price”. The Division Bench had also concluded there was no evidence to prove an allegation that the suit and execution proceedings were “collusive”.