The Allahabad High Court has held that persons holding an agreement to sell by a property owner cannot claim any ownership rights in property disputes nor demand to be added as parties in an ongoing case related to the property.

The court emphasised that such agreements create no legal interest in the property and merely provide a right to seek specific performance.

Justice Manish Kumar Nigam on November 13, 2025, allowed a civil revision petition and quashed the order of a Gautam Buddh Nagar court which had permitted two individuals to be impleaded in a family partition suit on the strength of an unregistered agreement to sell.

Within the Chauhan family, there was a long-standing dispute over a property located at C-103B, Sector-39, NOIDA, measuring 163 square metres. The property was

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