Supreme Court of India

Smt. Sarita Dokania and Anr.etc. v. Smt. Krishna Dey and Anr.

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Reported as [2013] 5 S.C.R. 1089
Bench Surinder Singh Nijjar and Pinaki Chandra Ghose JJ.
Decided 6 May 2013

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, we allow the appeals to this limited 8 extent.

Judgment, page 4

From the headnote

Interest - On earnest money - Suits for specific performance of agreement - Decreed by trial court - Decree modified by High Court declining the relief of specific performance and granting the alternative relief of refund of earnest money - On appeal to Supreme Court notice issued limited on the question of interest on earnest money - Plea of vendor that vendee was not entitled to interest because the vendor had immediately after the agreement had offered to refund the earnest money - Held: Vendor was liable to pay interest on the earnest money from the date of its receipt - The vendors in

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