Supreme Court · 2019 INSC 1015 · Decided 11 September 2019
Raja Ram v. Jai Prakash Singh and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2019 INSC 1015 · [2019] 12 S.C.R. 112
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2896/2009
- Decided
- 11 September 2019
- Bench
- NAVIN SINHA, INDIRA BANERJEE (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Evidence Act Section 1; Contract Act Section 16
Headnote
Contract Act, 1872: s. 16 - Undue influence - Inference of - Execution of sale deed by father in favour of his son-respondent - Allegation by appellant-son that respondent no. 1 exercised undue influence over the father in having the sale deed executed because of physical infirmity of the father on account of his old age and that the father was living with the respondents - Held: To infer undue influence merely because a sibling was looking after the family elder, is an extreme proposition which cannot be countenanced in absence of
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