A police station is not a civil court: AP High Court bars police from settling property fights, in seven writs
The question: Do police have any authority to decide or settle the civil rights of private parties?
In seven writ petitions decided on 29 September 2026, people complained that police had pulled them into disputes over land, houses and money that belonged in civil courts. The High Court answered the question in one line: the police have no jurisdiction to decide the civil rights of parties against each other. A day later the same judge gave an almost identical ruling in a larger batch of 13 writs.