Supreme Court · 1979 INSC 78 · Decided 4 April 1979
Shakuntala Sawhney v. Kaushalya Sawhney
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1979 INSC 78 · [1979] 3 S.C.R. 639
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 348/1977
- Decided
- 4 April 1979
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, V.D. TULZAPURKAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 141; Hindu Succession Act; Succession Act
Headnote
639 Proc1?dt1re-Dury of Subordinate Court:1 in dealing with farnily dispute3. The purpose of la\V and justice (Dharma) is promotion of cohesion and no~ production of fission. A judgment often possesses a sublime essence and a humdrum component. The sublime· e1ement consists in the when they are blood relations like sisters. The -present appeal in its happy conclusion, holds out the· higher lesson that hate and fight are dis.solved by basic human fellnwsbip, even after bitter litigative struggle, if the Bench and the Bair pursue consensual justice and bring into
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