Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 835 · Decided 20 September 2023
Appaiya v. Andimuthu @ Thangapandi & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 835 · [2023] 12 S.C.R. 525
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 14630/2015
- Decided
- 20 September 2023
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, C.T. RAVIKUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 100; Evidence Act Section 65(e), 74, 76, 77, 79, 74(2), 57(5); Registration Act Section 57(5)
Headnote
HEADNOTES Issue for consideration: Whether the High Court was correct in holding that owing to the non-production of any document by appellant evincing as to how the sons' of the seller obtained the suit property in a partition Exhibit A1-registered sale deed whereby the property was sold vendor, being a registration copy-secondary evidence, could not be admitted in evidence as proof of the contents of its original. Evidence Act, 1872 - s. 65(e), 74, 76, 77 and 79 - Registration Act, 1908 - s. 57(5) - Admissibility in evidence of certifi ed copies
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