Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 694 · Decided 11 July 2022
Hemantha Kumar v. R. Mahadevaiah & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 694 · [2022] 12 S.C.R. 117
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4108/2022
- Decided
- 11 July 2022
- Bench
- M.R. SHAH, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure,1908 - Or.XXIII, r.3 - Consent decree - Grant of - The original plaintiff instituted suit for specific performance of the agreement to sell - Before the Trial Court plaintiff and defendants submitted an application under Or.XXXIII, r.3 and referred the matter to Lok Adalat - Lok Adalat passed the consent decree - Defendants filed writ petition before the High Court challenging the consent decree on ground of fraud - High Court set aside the consent decree, observing that counsel for the plaintiff had mislead
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