Supreme Court of India

Baldev Singh and Ors. Etc. v. Manohar Singh and Anr. Etc.

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Reported as [2006] SUPP. 4 S.C.R. 259
Bench Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan and Tarun Chatterjee JJ.
Decided 3 August 2006

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court as C well as the trial court erred in rejecting the application for amendment of written statement.

Judgment, page 10

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908: Order 6, Rule 17--Amendment of pleadings-Governing principles-­ Plaintiff filed a suit for a declaration that he was the owner and in possession of the suit property alleging that the sale deeds executed in the names of his parents were benami transactions-The defendants filed their written statement denying that there was any agreement to sell the suit property or that the suit property was owned and possessed by the plaintiff-The defendants filed an application for amendment of the written statement alleging that the suit was barred by limitation, that the

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