Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 88 · Decided 31 January 2024
Government of Goa Through the Chief Secretary v. Maria Julieta D’souza (D) & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 88 · [2024] 1 S.C.R. 1190
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 722/2016
- Decided
- 31 January 2024
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, ARAVIND KUMAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Whether the High Court, while allowing first appeal against judgment of trial court that dismissed the suit filed by respondent for declaration of title and injunction, had wrongly shifted the burden of proof on to the than requiring the plaintiff to prove its title. Suit - Suit for declaration of title and injunction - Standard of proof - While inquiring into whether a fact is proved, sufficiency of evidence to be seen in the context of standard of proof, which in civil cases is by
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