Supreme Court of India

Union of India v. M/s Chaturbhai M. Patel & Co. and Vice Versa

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Reported as [1976] 2 S.C.R. 902
Bench K. K. Mathew and S. Murtaza Fazal Ali JJ.
Decided 9 December 1975
Status Distinguished

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Fraud-must be estabiis/u'd beyond reasonable doubt-Mere suspicion­ lf proof of fraud, '111e resondent filed a suit against the, Union of India alleging that due to negligence of the railways a consignment of tobacco despatched by him to Gaya was substituted in transit and that in its place inferior tobacco was deli· vered al Gaya. The railways on the other hand alleged fraud and collusion between the respondent and his father, also a bidi tobacco merchant in Gujarat, because by deliberate manipulation, ·the respondent consigned inferior goods to Gaya and superior goods to Gujarat. The trial

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