Supreme Court of India
Union of India and Others v. Vasavi Co-op. Housing Society Ltd. and Others
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What the Court ordered
We are of the view that the plaintiff has not succeeded in establishing his title and possession of the suit land in question.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
Suit: c Suit for title and possession - Onus - Held: In a suit for declaration of title and for possession, burden always lies on the plaintiff to make out and establish his case by adducing sufficient evidence and the weakness, if any, of the case set up by the defendants would not be a ground to grant relief to plaintiff - In the instant case, trial court as well as High Court rather than examining in depth, the question, as to whether the plaintiffs have succeeded in establishing their title to the suit land, went on to examine in depth the weakness of defendants' title - Plaintiffs have
Authorities it was built on
- 1954 Moran Mar Basselios Catholicos and Another v. Most Rev. Mar Poulose Athanasius and Others
- 1991 Vatticherukuru Village Panchayat and Ors v. Nori Venkatarama Deekshithulu and Ors.
- 1995 Nagar Palika, Jind v. Jagat.singh, Advocate
- 2007 Syndicate Bank v. Estate Officer & Manager, A.P.I.I.C. Ltd. & Ors.
- 1993 Guru Amarjit Singh v. Rattan Chand and Ors.
- 1996 State of Himachal Pradesh v. Sh. Keshav Ram and Ors.
- 2003 Secunderabad Cantonment Board, Andhra Circle,-secunderabad Rep. by Executive Officer v. Mohammed Mohiuddin and Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2023 P. Kishore Kumar v. Vittal K. Patkar
- 2023 Smriti Debbarma (dead) through Legal Representative v. Prabha Ranjan Debbarma and Others
- 2024 Government of Goa through the Chief Secretary v. Maria Julieta D’souza (d) & Ors.
- 2019 Jagdish Prasad Patel (dead) Thr. Lrs.& Another v. Shivnath & Others
Of those, 2 relied on · 2 referred to
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