Supreme Court · 1965 INSC 29 · Decided 10 February 1965
Dwarka Nath v. Shri Lal Chand and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1965 INSC 29 · [1965] 3 S.C.R. 27
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 195/1963
- Decided
- 10 February 1965
- Bench
- P.B. GAJENDRAGADKAR, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.C. SHAH, S.M. SIKRI (4-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 157
Headnote
c n E F G U.P. Court of Wards A~, 1912 (Aot 4 of 1912), ss. 37, 53-Scope of-Consent of Court of Wards for AdOl>tion-Jf adoption can be challenged in Civil Court. A widow whose estate was under the charge of the Court of Wards, made an adoption and applied under s. 37 of the U.P. Court of Wards lector refused the permission as the grant of authority to adopt, by the husband who died in 1901, was not proved. The 1st res­ pondent's father, the nearest reversioner, filed a suit challenging the adoption as contrary to s. 37 of the Act and the suit was decreed. The widow.
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