Supreme Court · 1966 INSC 23 · Decided 21 January 1966
Kehar Singh & Ors . v. Dewan Singh & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1966 INSC 23 · [1966] 3 S.C.R. 393
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 429/1963
- Decided
- 21 January 1966
- Bench
- K. SUBBA RAO, M. HIDAYATULLAH, R.S. BACHAWAT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Cus1on1-Jats of Amritsar District-Adoptio11r--Diffefence between adop­ tion as heir and formal adoption-Test of formal adoption-Severence of ties with natural family-Rlght of p·erson adopted to the property of co/. laterals of adopting family. The revenue authorities sanctioned mutation Jat of Tehsil Ajnala in Amritsar District of the Punjab, in favour of the appellants who were collaterals of S in the 8th degree. A suit for possession of the said lands was filed against them by the respon­ dents who claimed the lands as descendants of K. According to them K Wa5 the
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