Supreme Court · 1969 INSC 112 · Decided 15 April 1969
Voleti Venkatarama Rao v. Kesapragada Bhaskar Rao & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1969 INSC 112 · [1970] 1 S.C.R. 301
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 757/1963
- Decided
- 15 April 1969
- Bench
- S.M. SIKRI, R.S. BACHAWAT, V. RAMASWAMI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Hindu laY.~A.doption-Challenge to adoption after a long lapse of years-Presumption as to validity. One B, a Brahmin Karnam, executed a will in 1903 authorising his widow to adopt. After bis death, the widow adopted R in 1904. The first respondent was R's adopted son. R died in 1950, end his by evezy member of the family as the adopted son elf B, and he was registered as the Karnam and he acted as the Karnam till his death. In 1953, the appellant, claiming to be the nearest heir of B filed a suit for recovery of possession of B's property contending that R's adoption was
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