Supreme Court of India

Bhim Singh &.anr. v. Kan Singh

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Reported as [1980] 2 S.C.R. 628
Bench P.N. Shingal J.
Decided 21 December 1979

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, Civil Appeal No. 626 of 197! Is accordingly allowed with costs throughout.

Judgment, page 22

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Benanii-What is-Tests for deciding benami transactions. Plaintiff no. 1 and plaintiff no. 2 were father and son while defendant wa5 the brother of plaintiff no. 1. The plaintiffs in their suit against the defendanl claimed that the suit house in Which the defendant WM living, belonged to them by virtue of a patta issued in their names. They alleged that the deceased brother of plaintiff no. 1, who remain'ed a bar-Jielor till his death, loved plaintiff no. 2 as bis son and had thought of adopting plaintiff no. 2 but since he· died all of a sudden it could not be done. The defendant on the

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