Supreme Court of India

V.S. Palanichamy Cheitiar Firm v. C. Alagappan and Anr.

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Reported as [1999] 1 S.C.R. 349

Bench S. Saghir Ahmad J.

Decided 3 February 1999

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Specific Relief Act-Sections 16, 28-Application for extension of time ,... Suit for specific perfonnance-Decree holder failing to deposit purchase money within the time limit fixed by court-Execution dismissed for want of c deposit of balance amount-Application for extension filed after five years of decree-Be/ ore the High Court in revision-Remanded to execution Court-Whether maintainable-Held, executing Court cmt entertain the ap- plication for extension-Further held, vendor can seek recission as a defence. Specific Relief Act-Section 28-Suit for specific relief decreed-Decree holder

Authorities it was built on

1997 K.S. Vidyanadam and Ors. v. Vairavan cited by 25
1994 Ramankutty Guptan v. Avara cited by 11

Where later benches applied it

2025 Balbir Singh & Anr. Etc. v. Baldev Singh (d) through His Lrs. & Ors. Etc. relied on
2019 Ravi Setia v. Madan Lal and Others relied on
2026 Anand Narayan Shukla v. Jagat Dhari referred to
2025 Ram Lal v. Jarnail Singh (now Deceased) through its Lrs & Ors. referred to
2024 Ishwar (since Deceased) Thr. Lrs & Ors. v. Bhim Singh & Anr. referred to
2023 P. Shyamala v. Gundlur Masthan referred to
2019 G H Surinder Pal Soni v. Sohan Lal (d) Thru Lrs. referred to

Of those, 2 relied on · 5 referred to

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