Supreme Court of India

Deoki Nandan v. Murlidhar.

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Reported as [1956] 1 S.C.R. 756

Bench Jagannadhadas, Venkatarama Ayyar, B. P. Sinha and S. K. Das JJ.

Decided 4 October 1956

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal is allowed, the decrees of the courts below are set aside, and a declaration granted in terms of para 17(a) of the plaint.

Judgment, page 16

Where later benches applied it

2026 Anurag Krishna Sinha v. State of Bihar referred to

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