Supreme Court of India

Pawan Kumar Gupta v. Rochiram Nagdeo

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Reported as [1999] 2 S.C.R. 767
Bench K.T. Thomas and D.P. Mohapatra JJ.
Decided 20 April 1999

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow this appeal and set aside the impugned judgment.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, I 908 : S.I I-Bar ofresjudicata--Sale deed-Transfer of suit building-Default in payment of rent by tenant-Eviction suit-Tenant raising a plea that sale was benami transaction-Trial Court holding the transferee to be real oHner­ Suit dismissed as arrears of rent deposited-Filing of another eviction sui( on the ground of bonafide requirement-Tenant re-agitating the issue of transferee's title to the suit building-Maintainability of-Held, the findings of the trial court in the first suit that transferee is the real owner had become final-Tenant could have challenged the

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 mentioned

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