Agreement to sell -- Specific performance - Ready and willing - Application submitted to Sub-Registrar that plaintiff has come prepared with necessary funds - Application with stamp of office of Sub Registrar is duly proved by evidence of PW1 - Mere fact that plaintiff has not proved signatures of Sub-Registrar is not sufficient to belie said document when submission of..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Order 18, Rule 3 -- Rebuttal evidence - Plaintiff filed suit for declaration on the basis of family settlement - Defendant denied his signatures on alleged family settlement - It was incumbent upon plaintiffs to have led all evidence in affirmative to prove said alleged family settlement - Moreover, there is nothing on record to show that..........
Agreement to sell -- Suit for specific performance - Defendant alleged that plaintiff has obtained signatures on blank stamp papers and thereafter fabricated alleged agreement of sale - However, there is no justification from defendant side as to what prompted defendant to remain silent without filing a criminal complaint alleging fabrication of an agreement of sale and..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 26, Rule 10A -- Scientific expert - Comparison of signatures and thumb impressions - Mere denial of execution of documents does not automatically mandate comparison through an expert, particularly when documents relied upon is already part of record and matter is yet to proceed to final adjudication - Application rightly..........
Will -- Proof - Attesting witness/DW2 had very close association with testator and he was a frequent visitor to house of testator - Presence of testator and attesting witnesses and signatures affixed on Will by each of them have been stated by DW2 in his deposition - DW2 was examined twenty four years later and It would be puerile to think that witness would have..........
Indian Penal Code, 1860, Section 376 -- Rape - Testimony of panch witnesses of recovery of clothes of appellant as well as victim - Signatures of panch witnesses were obtained on written paper at the instance of police - Said witnesses had no occasion to go through contents of said panchnama - Thus, High Court has committed an error while placing reliance upon stains of..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 8(c), 20(b)(ii)(C), 29(1) -- Contraband - Sample packets were duly sealed with signatures and seizure details - Seized material along with samples was produced before Magistrate - Scientific Officer affirmed that seal on packet received for analysis was intact and bore correct identifying particulars -..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 151, Order 9, Rule 13 -- Ex parte divorce decree against husband - Setting aside - Service of summons - Manifest and explicit difference in writing as well as use of pens while mentioning endorsement of `receiving summons and copy of petition' as well as in writing and pen used for signatures allegedly shown to be of husband - When..........
Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act, 1985, Section 18 -- Contraband - Solitary independent witness not examined by prosecution and given up as having been won over - PW3 stated that independent witness had come to place of recovery at about 7.30 A.M. which is much prior to apprehension of accused, who was allegedly apprehended at about 8.30 A.M - Consent..........
Civil Procedure Code, 1908, Section 47, Order 21, Rule 2 -- Execution - Payment of decretal amount out of Court - Application seeking certification of satisfaction of decree - Once DH admits his signatures on receipt acknowledging full and final payment, evidentiary burden stands duly discharged - Admission is the best evidence against maker and unless satisfactorily..........
