Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 771 · Decided 23 May 2025
Peter Augustine v. K.V. Xavier and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 771 · [2025] 5 S.C.R. 1007
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7160/2024
- Decided
- 23 May 2025
- Bench
- BHUSHAN RAMKRISHNA GAVAI, AUGUSTINE GEORGE MASIH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
1007 : 2025 INSC 771 Peter Augustine v. K.V. Xavier and Others (Civil Appeal No. 7160 of 2024) 23 May 2025 [B.R. Gavai, CJI* and Augustine George Masih, J.] Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether High Court was justified in remitting the matter back to the trial court on the second for de-novo disposal - Correctness: Held: High Court remitted the matter back to the trial court only on the ground that there was no proper identification of the subject land by the Court Commissioner - Appeal could have been very well decided on the basis of the interpretation of
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