Supreme Court · 2007 INSC 1293 · Decided 13 December 2007
New India Assurance Company LTD. v. Nusli Neville Wadia and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2007 INSC 1293 · [2007] 13 S.C.R. 598
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5879/2007
- Decided
- 13 December 2007
- Bench
- S.B. SINHA, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 101; Constitution Article 12
Headnote
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