Supreme Court of India

Puran Ram v. Bhaguram and Anr.

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Reported as [2008] 3 S.C.R. 663
Decided 29 February 2008

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1 Supreme Court bench has cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the High Court ought not to have interfered with the order of the trial court when the order of the trial court was passed on sound consideration of law and G facts and when it cannot be said that the order of the trial court was either without jurisdiction or perverse or arbitrary.

Judgment, page 13

From the headnote

Specific Relief Act, 1963: s. 26 - Rectification of instrument - Suit for specific performance of agreement for sale - Part of suit property wrongly described by mutual c mistake in the agreement for sale and in the plaint - Prayer for amendment of plaint and agreement for sale to correct a part of description of suit property - Permissibility of - Held: Permissible by virtue of proviso to s.26- The relief claimed in the suit would remain same and would not change the nature •• of suit from suit for specific performance to suit for declaration - Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Order 6 r. 17.

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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