Supreme Court of India

L.I.C. of India v. Anuradha

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Reported as [2004] 3 S.C.R. 629
Bench R.C. Lahoti and Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan JJ.
Decided 26 March 2004

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Evidence Act, 1872: Section 108-Presumption as to death-Of a person not having been heard of for seven years-Drawing of-Held: There is no automatic presumption or assumption that a person not heard of for seven years was dead on the date of his disappearance or soon after the date and lime on which he was last seen-The only inference permissible was that such a person was dead at the time when the question arose-At what point of time the person was dead is not a mat/er of presumption but of evidence, factual or circumstantial-The onus of proving that death had taken place at a given point of

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