Supreme Court of India

Shakuntala Devi Jain v. Kuntal Kumari & Ors.

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Reported as [1969] 1 S.C.R. 1006
Decided 5 September 1968

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We hold that the memorandum of appeal from the order dated January 20, 1967 should have been accompanied by a certified copy of tbe order and in the absence of the requisite copy the appeal was defective and incompetent.

Judgment, page 5

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