Supreme Court · 1996 INSC 804 · Decided 30 July 1996
Pirthi @ Sans! ETC. v. Jati Ram and ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1996 INSC 804 · [1996] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 175
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 13659/1996
- Decided
- 30 July 1996
- Bench
- K. RAMASWAMY, G.B. PATTANAIK (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Specific Relief Act
Headnote
B Specific Relief Act, 1963 : c Suit for specific peifonnance-Discretion of Cowt to grant altemative relief-Petitioner entered into an agreement to sell ce1tain agiicultural land to respondent No. I-Respondent No. I filed a suit for specific peifor­ mance---Suit was decreed by flial coult holding that since respondents have co1ne into possession, a decree of specific pe1fomiance would not be proper and instead relief of recovery and compen­ sation would be approp1iate remedy-fl! second appeal High Coult reversed D the judginent of the first appellate court-Held,
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