Supreme Court of India

Gurdlt Singh v. Mst. Angrez Kaur Alias Gej Kaur Alias Malan and Others

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Reported as [1967] 3 S.C.R. 789
Bench K.N. Wanchoo J.
Decided 25 April 1967

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What the Court ordered

We hold that there is no force at all in the submission of the learned counsel that this Riwaj-i-am could be held to be reliable insofar as it records the absence of the custom; on the mere ground that in earlier cases the unreliability of this Riwaj-i-am was found in regard to record of customs relating to other matters.

Judgment, page 8

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