Supreme Court of India

Citi Bank N.A. v. Standard Chartered Bank and Ors.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 489
Bench R.C. Lahoti and Ashok Bhan JJ.
Decided 8 October 2003

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What the Court ordered

We hold that production of two BRs by the F Citi Bank raised a rebuttable presumption that Citi Bank had discharged its obligation under the two BRs which the SCB failed to dislodge by pleading/leading any evidence to show the circumstances under which the two BRs were returned.

Judgment, page 26

From the headnote

Contract Act, 1872-Section 63-Performance of Contract-Transfer of Bonds-By one Bank to another Bank-Subsidiary General Transfer Form given by first bank in favour of second bank-Dishonoured-Further transfer of the Bonds in favour of third Bank-Bankers Receipt given in lieu of the Bonds-Bankers Receipts duly discharged returned by third Bank asking for Subsidiary General Ledger transfer in favour of second Bank from the first Bank-Demand was voluntary with knowledge about the dishonour-Ledger given-Interest on the Bonds received by third Bank from a third party-After 9 months of transaction,

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