Supreme Court · 1970 INSC 70 · Decided 18 March 1970
Debi Prasad (Dead) RV L.RS. v. Tribeni Devi and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1970 INSC 70 · [1971] 1 S.C.R. 101
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 707/1966
- Decided
- 18 March 1970
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, K.S. HEGDE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
R ) E F G H DEBI PRASAD (DEAD\ RV L.RS. v. TRIBENI DEVI AND ORS. March 18, 1970 (J,. C. SHAH AND :K. S. HEGDE, JJ.l Hindu Law-Acll1ptiou-Burden pf Proof. The appellant file<l a suit in 1946 claiming to be the nearest heir to hfa. mntcm.al uncle-0, who died in 1934. S--defend~n\ no. l (the the bi·rth of S, the wife of G took him to her paternal home where Paon Pheri ceremony was performed, as was cu~omary in that family. The application for admi,sion to the school recited that S was the son of G, and it \Vas signed )y G. G deposl'!d before '<Courts that S was his son.
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