Supreme Court of India

V. T. S. Chandarasekhara Mudaliar (died) and Others. v. Kulandaivelu Mudaliar and Others.

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Reported as [1963] 2 S.C.R. 440
Bench A.K. Sarkar J.
Decided 26 April 1962

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In the result, the appeal fails and is dismissed with costs.

Judgment, page 36

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Hindu LaW:-Adoption-Nearer Sapindas...:..Refusal of consent-When improper. ' The appellants, the nearer sapindas of the husband of the 2nd respondent who had adopted the !st respondent, the son of her agent, filed a ·suit for a declaration that the adoption was invalid on. the ground that they had pro­ perly refus~ their consent an~ that _the remote sapii;da who had given hu consent was dJSquahfied from . so domg as he , did not believe in the Hindu scriptures. The appellants who had been asked for their consent had refused it on the ground that the 1st respondent was not an agnate and that

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