Supreme Court of India

Bara Singh v. Kashmira Singh and Ors.

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Reported as [1990] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 417
Bench T.K. Thommen, K.N. Saikia and N.M. Kasliwal JJ.
Decided 12 September 1990

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What the Court ordered

In the result, this appeal is allowed, the impugned Order of the High Court is set aside and Decree of the lower courts in the suit · restored.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Hindu Law-Ancestral Immovable property-Alienation a/­ Custom amongst lats in Central District of Punjab-Alienation as a bona fide act of good management-Valid. Respondent Nos. 4 to 6 sold their 3/Sth share of the ancestral land to the appellant for Rs.14,000, as the vendors left their village and wanted to settle elsewhere where they purchased 80 kanals of Nehri land. Respondents Nos. 1 to 3 filed a declaratory snit in the court of Snb-J udge, Ludhiana seeking a declaration that the sale of the suit land would not affect their reversionary rights after the death of respondents 4 to 6. They

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