Supreme Court · 2013 INSC 192 · Decided 22 March 2013
Rukmini Amma & ORS. v. Rajeswary (Dead) Through LRS. & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2013 INSC 192 · [2013] 5 S.C.R. 579
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1475/2005
- Decided
- 22 March 2013
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, F.M. IBRAHIM KALIFULLA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Transfer of Property Act Section 76(c)
Headnote
A B Mortgage - ~edemption - Permissibility - Land mortgaged - During subsistence of the mortgage, the land C sold in auction by Revenue authorities for appropriation of agricultural income tax liabilities of the mortgagor - The land was purchased by the mortgagee - After about filing suit for redemption - Suit dismissed by trial court, but decreed by first appellate court and High Court - D On appeal, held: Mortgagor not entitled to redemption - The . sale of land in auction by Revenue authorities to the mortgagee has extinguished the redemption rights of the
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