Supreme Court of India
H. Venkatachala Iyengar v. B. N. Thimmajamma & Others
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The result is the appeal fails and must be dismissed but there will be no order as to costs in this Court.
Judgment, p. 463
From the headnote
Will-Mode of proof-Onus-Suspicious circumstances-Removal of such suspicion, if part of the initial burden on the propounder-Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (I of 1872), ss. 45, 47, 67, 68-Indian Succession Act, 1925 (XXXIX of 1925), ss. 59, 63. The mode of proving a will does not ordinarily differ from that of proving any other document except as to the special requirement of attestation prescribed in the case of a will by s. 63 of the Indian Succession Act.…
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- 1989 Kalyan Singh, London Trained, Cutter, Johri Bazar, Jaipur v. Smt. Chhoti and Ors.
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