Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 240 · Decided 18 December 1980
Harish Chander & ORS. v. Ghisa Ram and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 240 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 405
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2150/1970
- Decided
- 18 December 1980
- Bench
- A.D. KOSHAL, BAHARUL ISLAM (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 109
Headnote
Puniab Land Revenue Act, Section 44 and Rule I contained in Section 109 Evidence Act-Scope of-Suit of pre-emption of land on the ground that the plai11tiff was a tenant-Presumption of truth of entries in favour of the revenue records like lamabandi and Khasra Girdawaris. Dismissing the defendant's plail)).iff, the Court. HELD : A presumption of truth attaches to the entries in the Jamabandi for the year 1959-60 showing the defendant-respondents as a tenant, in view of the provisions of Section 44 of the, Punjab Land Revenue Act. That presump­ tion is no doubt rebuttable, but, in the
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