Supreme Court of India
Dhanpat v. Sheo Ram (deceased) through Lrs. & Ors.
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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.
What the Court ordered
Held as under: 15 (2014) 15 SCC 578 16 (2014) 15 SCC 570 149 “.
Judgment, page 18
From the headnote
Indian Succession Act, 1925: s. 63 – Will – Admissibility of – Suit seeking declaration that the plaintiff, his mother and his sisters had equal share in the suit land which was given to defendant No. 5 by way of a Will – The Will was challenged as being result of fraud and misrepresentation – Trial Court as well as first Appellate Court dismissed the suit holding that plaintiff had no share in the property as partition of the property had already been done during lifetime of the testator and that the Will had been duly proved – High Court in second appeal decreed the suit on the ground that…
Authorities it was built on
- 1958 H. Venkatachala Iyengar v. B. N. Thimmajamma & Others
- 2002 Janki Narayan Bhoir v. Narayan Namdeo Kadam
- 2016 Pankajakshi (dead) through Lrs. & Others v. Chandrika & Others
- 1996 Dr. Bipin Shantilal Panchal v. State of Gujarat
- 2019 Randhir Kaur v. Prithvi Pal Singh & Ors.
- 1969 M. L. Abdul Jabhar Sahib v. H. V. Venkata Sastri & Sons & Ors.
- 2014 Leela Rajagopal & Ors. v. Kamala Menon Cocharan & Ors.
- 2001 N. Kamalam (dead) and Anr. v. Ayyasamy and Anr.
- 2001 Bipin Shantilalpanchal v. State of Gujarat and Anr.
- 1976 Seth Beni Chand (since Dead) Now by L.rs. v. Smt. Kamla Kunwar and Others
Where later benches applied it
- 2026 Tharammel Peethambaran v. T. Ushakrishnan
- 2025 Gurdial Singh (dead) through Lr v. Jagir Kaur (dead) and Anr. Etc.
Of those, 2 referred to
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