Supreme Court of India
Satish Chand Surana v. Raj Kumar Meshram
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What the Court ordered
In the result, the appeal succeeds and is accordingly allowed in part.
Judgment, page 3
From the headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – Or.XLI, r.27 and s.107 – Dismissal of main appeal by First Appellate Court without deciding application for additional evidence – Held: Not proper – Ordinarily, the Appellate Court should not travel beyond the record of the lower court – s.107 CPC carves out an exception to this general rule, enabling the Appellate Court to take additional evidence subject to conditions prescribed in Or.XLI, r.27 CPC – Thus, grant or refusal of opportunity for production of additional evidence at the appellate stage is within the discretion of the appellate court – The First…
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