Supreme Court of India

Karumanda Gounder v. Muthuswamy Gounder and Ors.

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Reported as [1996] 1 S.C.R. 344
Bench Madan Mohan Punchhi and Sujata V. Manohar JJ.
Decided 10 January 1996

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Property--Partition between brothers-One of the brothers gifting certain properties which was subsequently sold by the donee--Other brother objecting to the transactions claiming the properties to be joinl--Also claim- ing that his brother has become lunatic and hence not capable of alienating the properties-Trial Court holding him to be 'mild lunatic'-High Court held that in view of admitted partition, the other brother had no right over the propertie,-.()n appeal held : There is no such thing as 'mild lunatic'-- person of weak intellect not lunatic--Also not declared as lunatic under the

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