Supreme Court of India

Bharat Singh and Anr. v. Bhagirathi

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Reported as [1966] 1 S.C.R. 606
Bench A.K. Sarkar J.
Decided 26 August 1965

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Indian Evidence Act (I of 1872)-Admissions--Witness not confronted -Whether admissible-Hindu Law-Widow's name mutated-If suffi­ cient to prove severance of joint family. The appellants filed a suit for a declaration that the entry in the name of the respondent in the Jamabandi papers of certain villages was in­ correct and alleged that they along with their brother,. the husband of the respondent, constituted a joint Hindu family, that their brother died as a member of the joint Hindu family and thereafter his widow-the res­ pondent-lived with the appellants who continued to be owners and

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