The Supreme Court observed that an encroacher cannot be termed as a ‘transferee’ to seek benefit of Section 51 of the Transfer of Property Act. Where the owner of the land filed suit for recovery of possession of his and from the encroacher and once he establishes his title, merely because some structures are erected by the opposite party ignoring the objection, that too without any bona fide belief, denying the relief of recovery of possession would tantamount to allowing a trespasser/encroacher to purchase another man’s property against that man’s will, the bench of Justices B R Gavai and C T Ravikumar said