Supreme Court of India

Joseph Severance and Ors. v. Benny Mathew and Ors.

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 429

Bench Arijit Pasa Y At and C.K. Thakker JJ.

Decided 23 September 2005

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the appellant should not be G denied relief merely because he had couched the plaint in the form of a suit for mandatory injunction.

Judgment, page 10

Authorities it was built on

1951 Ram Kumar Das v. Jagadish Chandra Deb Dhabal Deb and Another cited by 8

Where later benches applied it

2009 K.K. Kannan (d) by Lrs. v. Koolivathukkal Karikkan Mandi & Ors. relied on
2022 Bharat Bhushan Gupta v. Pratap Narain Verma & Anr referred to
2015 Ashok Rangnth Nagar v. Shrikant Govindrao Sangvikar referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 referred to

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