Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 258 · Decided 25 October 1976
Jaswant Kaur v. Amrit Kaur & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 258 · [1977] 1 S.C.R. 925
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1360/1975
- Decided
- 25 October 1976
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.K. GOSWAMI, A.C. GUPTA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act Section 63
Headnote
Indian Succession Act, 1925-.S'ec. 63 legal will--Genuineness of-Suspicious circumsta~es-Burden of proof-Degree uf proof. S. Gobinder Singb Sibia was possessed of a large estate valued at about Rs. 15 lacs Ii. the time of his death in the year 1954. He had awo wives Guiab Kaur and Dalip Kaur. of S. Gobinder Singh, Guiab Kaur filed a suit for maintenance, claiming alternatively a one-half share in the estate left by her husband. Surjit contested the said suit. After the institution of the suit, the Hindu Succession Act, 1956, came into force on June 17, 1956 upon the plaintiff giving
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