Supreme Court · 1968 INSC 115 · Decided 19 April 1968
Gopal Krishnaji Ketkar v. Mahomed Haji Latif & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1968 INSC 115 · [1968] 3 S.C.R. 862
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 954/1965
- Decided
- 19 April 1968
- Bench
- J.C. SHAH, V. RAMASWAMI, G.K. MITTER (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
E'11icle11c.e-Jn1porlt111t docun1enlary e\•frh•nce wi1hheld-Tcch'1icC1l plea of onus of proof ca11no1 prevent adverse inference. The appellant claimed before th~ authorities under the Bombay Public Trusts Act, 1950, i11ter alia, that a certain plot of land belonged to him and not to the it held that the plot hclonged to the Trust. Jn appeal by certificate to this Court, HELD: On the evidence the plot in question must be held lo be the properly of the Trust. The failure of the appellmt to produce the account books admitted to he in his possession froht which it coul<l he
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