High Court of Karnataka Allows Execution Petition in Land Acquisition Case — Limitation Runs from Date of Decree, Not Award. The court held that under Article 136 of the Limitation Act, 1963, the 12-year limitation period for execution of a decree runs from the date of the decree (dismissal of appeal on 21.06.1991), not from the date of the award (31.07.1985), and thus the execution petition filed on 29.07.2005 was within time....
The case involves a Civil Revision Petition filed by the decree holders (petitioners) against an order dated 18.03.2011 passed by the II Additional City Civil Judge, Bangalore, dismissing their execut...




