Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 162 · Decided 10 February 2020
Atma Ram v. Charanjit Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 162 · [2020] 3 S.C.R. 697
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 27598/2016
- Decided
- 10 February 2020
- Bench
- N.V. RAMANA, V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 149; Specific Relief Act Section 16(c), 20
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - s.149; Or. VI, r.17 - Respondent agreed to sell immovable property to petitioner under an agreement entered in 1994 - Earnest money was paid - Petitioner issued legal notice in 1996 claiming that when the date fixed for specific performance of some civil litigation with a third party, as an impediment for execution of sale deed - Petitioner filed suit in 1999 for mandatory injunction - Respondent sought its dismissal on the ground that said suit was not maintainable for enforcing specific performance of an agreement
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