Supreme Court of India

Srinivasa Vardachariar and Ors. v. Gopala Menon and Ors.

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Reported as [1967] 1 S.C.R. 721
Bench K.N. Wanchoo J.
Decided 4 October 1966

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What the Court ordered

In the result the learned Judges only allowed simple interest at 12 per cent per annum.

Judgment, page 5

From the headnote

Usurious Loans (Madras Amendment) Act (8 of 1937), s. 3-Rate ot interes..t permissible. The first appellant advanced monies to against mortgages of her property. was adjudicated an insolvent in 1949 and her properties got vested in the Official Assignee of Madras. The Official Assignee brought the properties to sale which were ultimately purchased by the first res­ pondent. The Trial Court decreed the appellants' suit for enforcement of the mortgages against the property and awarded interest at the rate of 15 per cent compoundable with yearly rests. In appeal the Division Bench of the High

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