Supreme Court of India

Surinder Kaur (d) Thr. Lr. Jasinderjit Singh (d) Thr. Lrs. v. Bahadur Singh (d) Thr. Lrs.

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Bench Deepak Gupta and Aniruddha Bose JJ.
Decided 11 September 2019

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we allow the appeals, set aside the judgment and decree of all the courts below and dismiss the suit for specific performance.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Specific Relief Act, 1963 – s.16(c) – Performance of the essential terms of the contract – Predecessor-in-interest of the appellants entered into an agreement to sell the suit land with predecessor-in-interest of the respondents for total consideration of Rs. 5605/- – Out of this Rs.1000/- was paid as earnest money at the time of execution of agreement to sell – The possession of the land was handed over to the predecessor-in-interest of the respondents (vendee) – Since there was some litigation with regard to the property it was agreed between the parties that the sale deed would be executed…

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