Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 277 · Decided 21 December 1979
Bhim Singh &.ANR. v. Kan Singh
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 277 · [1980] 2 S.C.R. 628
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 626/1971
- Decided
- 21 December 1979
- Bench
- P.N. SHINGAL, E.S. VENKATARAMIAH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 21
Headnote
Benanii-What is-Tests for deciding benami transactions. Plaintiff no. 1 and plaintiff no. 2 were father and son while defendant wa5 the brother of plaintiff no. 1. The plaintiffs in their suit against the defendanl claimed that the suit house in Which the defendant WM living, belonged to them by brother of plaintiff no. 1, who remain'ed a bar-Jielor till his death, loved plaintiff no. 2 as bis son and had thought of adopting plaintiff no. 2 but since he· died all of a sudden it could not be done. The defendant on the other band claimed that he and his deceased brother lived
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