Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 328 · Decided 29 April 2004
Tekaba Ao and ANR. v. Sakumeren Ao and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 328 · [2004] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 897
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2196/1999
- Decided
- 29 April 2004
- Bench
- SHIVARAJ V. PATIL, D.M. DHARMADHIKARI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC
Headnote
B Customary Laws: Rules for Administration of Justice and Police in Nagaland, 1937- Rules 29 and 62(2)-Dispute between two clans of two villages in Hill C district-With regard to access to water source and ownership of land in - which source exists-Decision by Customary Courts-Appeal in High recording evidence and deciding case on evidence recorded as Original Court against one cian-On appeal held: In Village D Courts customary law is applied and dispute is resolved by mutual agreement and on consensus-Undertaking exercise of deciding the dispute of ownership of land by High Court
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