Supreme Court of India

Yellapu Uma Maheswari &anr. v. Buddha Jagadheeswararao & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 11 S.C.R. 849
Decided 8 October 2015

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that E;xhibits 8 21 and 822 are not admissible in evidence for the purpose of proving primary purpose of partition.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Deeds and Documents: r Unregistered documents - Admissibility of - In suit of c ,, f partition - Defendant introduced Exbt -21and Exbt -22 (Deed of Memorandum witnessing earlier partition and an • Agreement respectively) - Both the documents were held by courts below as not admissible - On appeal, held: s.49 of Registration Act imposes a bar on admissibility of an unregistered document which are required to be registered u/s. 17 of the Act - Admissibility of a document is entirely dependent upon the recitals contained in the document - The contents of both the documents exhibited by the

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