Supreme Court of India

N Asha Devi v. R Aravind Kumar

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Bench J.B. Pardiwala and K. Vinod Chandran JJ.
Decided 17 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

We find absolutely no reason to sustain the order of the Trial Court and the High Court and we set aside the same. 12. The plaint filed in O.S. No.632 of 2022 between the parties pending in Additional District and Sessions Judge, Chengalpattu, shall stand rejected. 13. The appeal is allowed.

Judgment, 11-13

In brief

The appellant, owner of two vacant plots totalling 4800 sq. ft., entered into two Memoranda of Joint Venture dated 18.08.2014 with the respondents for construction of eight flats, under which the owner was to retain 56% of the super built-up area and the respondents were to receive 44% of both the undivided share in the land and the built-up area. The appellant cancelled the agreements by letter dated 20.04.2016 on the ground that construction was not completed within the stipulated 15 months, followed by lawyers' notices in July, August, September and November 2016, which the respondents resisted as a unilateral cancellation.…

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