Supreme Court · 2022 INSC 433 · Decided 19 April 2022
Nemai Chandra Dey (Dead) Through LRS. v. Prasanta Chandra (Dead) Through LRS. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2022 INSC 433 · [2022] 4 S.C.R. 1076
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 14699/2015
- Decided
- 19 April 2022
- Bench
- K.M. JOSEPH, HRISHIKESH ROY (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Or. XLI, r. 31 - Duty of first Appellate Court - Reappreciation of evidence - Consideration of arguments and arriving at findings - Suit was filed by the plaintiff (wife of first defendant) seeking inter alia declaration of two documents i.e. gift deeds as void - Trial Court came to the conclusion that the plaintiff was a pardahnashin lady and the character of the document was not brought to the notice of the plaintiff - Gift deeds were declared void
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