Supreme Court · 2020 INSC 194 · Decided 14 February 2020
M/S Dharmaratnakara Rai Bahadur Arcot Narainswamy Mudaliar Chattram & Other Charities & ORS. v. M/S Bhaskar Raju & Brothers & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2020 INSC 194 · [2020] 3 S.C.R. 798
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1599/2020
- Decided
- 14 February 2020
- Bench
- S.A. BOBDE, BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, SURYA KANT (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Arbitration Act Section 11(6), 8; Stamp Act Section 33, 34
Headnote
Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957: ss.33 and 34 - If a lease deed is neither registered nor sufficiently stamped as required under the Act then the court cannot act upon such lease deed therein - If the instrument is not properly stamped, it should be impounded and dealt with in manner specified in Stamp Act - Arbitration. Equity: Equitable relief, entitlement - Respondents taking self- contradictory stand - Held: Not entitled to any relief. Allowing
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