Neighbour encroaching on your property

What you need to know

Neighbour encroachment can be challenged via civil suit for removal and damages, or revenue authority survey for boundary correction. Act quickly as delay affects limitation period.

Your rights

Civil suit for removal of encroachment and damages

Revenue authority survey for boundary correction

Interim injunction to stop further encroachment

Police complaint for willful trespass

What you should do now

Action first

Warn neighbour in writing

WhatsApp or letter asking to remove encroachment within 15 days
Take dated photographs of the encroachment now as evidence

Get official boundary survey done

Apply to Mamlatdar/Talati for joint boundary survey (Maapni)
Official survey establishes the correct boundary on record

If neighbour still refuses

File civil suit for mandatory injunction using survey report as evidence
For willful trespass — also file police complaint

Acts applicable

Specific Relief Act 1963

central

Section 5 & 6 — Recovery of possession of immovable property

Gujarat Land Revenue Code

gujarat

Survey and boundary correction provisions

Where to complain

eCourts — Find District Court Gujarat Revenue Department / Rent Control Tribunal

Consumer complaint portal: e-jagriti.gov.in (replaced edaakhil.nic.in as of Jan 2025). Labour complaints: col.gujarat.gov.in. All links verified June 2026 via web search against official government sources.