The High Court has ordered an alleged land grabber not to interfere with KSh4.6 billion parcel of land in an up market area within Nairobi.

Justice Oguttu Mboya ordered Dorcas Joan Kiptoo not to interfere with the estate of the deceased businessman whose property is being managed by his son Arvind Kanji Patel.

The judge certified as urgent the suit filed by Patel and directed the parties to appear before him on March 18, 2024 for hearing.

“That an order of interim injunction to restrain Dorcas Kiptoo and two others either by themselves servants or agents acting on her behalf from entering, remain and or in any other manner whatsoever from interfering with the plaintiffs (Arvind Patel Kanji) rights over the suit property pending hearing or further directions from this court,” ruled Justice Mboya.

The judge also ordered the suit to be heard on a priority basis and gave Dorcas three days to respond to the allegations that she illegally entered into the suit property of the deceased without any color of right.

The judge further directed the OCS Karen Police Station to enforce the order.

Arvind Patel has sued Dorcas, chief land registrar, director of survey and the attorney general.

In the documents filed in court, Alvind Kanji Patel claims that Dorcas has forcefully taken over his 66-acre property situated in Karen Nairobi worth KSh4.6 billion without any proof of ownership documents.

The judge was told that on Saturday March 2 2021, Dorcas hired goons and AP Officers and forcefully entered and trespassed his property situated in Karen.

“The 1st Defendant with her hired goons chased away the Plaintiff’s security guards, employees, threatened the Plaintiff’s tenants, demolished structures and sheds in the suit property and subsequently started to erect and fence off the suit property with poles,” read the court documents.

Arvind further claims that the AP officers were present when his property was invaded and his structures destroyed despite Dorcas not producing any ownership documents to give her authority to enter the parcels of land or Court Order.

The plaintiff says that he assumed the management of family estate following the death of his father Kanji Patel in 1995.

Arvind disclosed in the application documents that Dorcas told him on his face that she has orders from above to take possession of the suit property.

Subsequently, Arvind Patel reported the incident at Karen police plain’s police station vide OB NO.06/2/03/2024 but the police officer who accompanied him to the suit property was chased away by rowdy goons armed with machete.

The plaintiff claims that despite serving the OCS Karen police station with the court order nothing has been done.