Supreme Court · 2015 INSC 755 · Decided 8 October 2015
Yellapu Uma Maheswari &ANR. v. Buddha Jagadheeswararao & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2015 INSC 755 · [2015] 11 S.C.R. 849
- Case number
- SUO MOTO TRANSFER PETITION (CRIMINAL) No. 8441/2015
- Decided
- 8 October 2015
- Bench
- RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- Registration Act Section 49, 17, 17(1)(b), 17(i)(b); Stamp Act
Headnote
Deeds and Documents: r Unregistered documents - Admissibility of - In suit of c ,, f partition - Defendant introduced Exbt B-21and Exbt B-22 (Deed of Memorandum witnessing earlier partition and an • Agreement respectively) - Both the documents were held by courts below as not admissible - On Registration Act imposes a bar on admissibility of an D unregistered document which are required to be registered u/s. 17 of the Act - Admissibility of a document is entirely dependent upon the recitals contained in the document - The contents of both the documents exhibited by the E defendant
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