Supreme Court of India

Basant Singh v. Janki Singh and Ors.

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Reported as [1967] 1 S.C.R. 1
Bench K.N. Wanchoo, J.C. Shah and R. S. Bachawat JJ.
Decided 2 August 1966

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Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872), s. 17-Admission made in pleading--Relevancy in another suit. The plaintiff tendered in evidence a plaint in an earlier suit and relied on an admission made by the defendants with regard to a fact in issue in the later suit. The High Court ruled that the plaint was not admissible in evidence on two grounds, viz., (i) the plaintiff could not rely on a state­ ment in the plaint as an admission, as she was not prepared to accept the correctne!"s of the other staten1ents in the plaint and (ii) an admission in a pleading could be used only for the purposes of

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