The Supreme Court of India has dismissed appeals related to a nearly century-old dispute between two community sects in Andhra Pradesh, holding that an executing court cannot order the execution of a decree “on mere presumption without any proof.”

In a judgment delivered on November 11, 2025, a bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Vipul M. Pancholi upheld a 2012 Andhra Pradesh High Court decision. The apex court affirmed that the appellants (decree-holders) had failed to discharge the “primary onus” of proving that the respondents (judgment-debtors) had violated the terms of a compromise decree dating back to 1933.

The legal issue centered on the executability of this 1933 compromise decree, which governed the custody of idols and the performance of religious rituals for

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