Supreme Court of India

Partap Singh (dead) through Lrs. & Ors. v. Shiv Ram (dead) through Lrs.

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Reported as [2020] 1 S.C.R. 694
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.
Decided 20 February 2020

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What the Court ordered

Held as under: 4 (1976) 3 SCC 642 SHRI PARTAP SINGH (DEAD) THROUGH LRS. & ORS. v.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Himachal Land Revenue Act, 1954: ss. 32(2)(a) , 34 – Record- of-rights and periodical record – Presumption in fa vour of entries therein – Rebuttal of – Held: Presumption of truth att ached to the record-of-rights can be rebutted only if there is a fraud in the entry or the entry was surreptitiously made or that prescribed procedure was not followed – Reliance cannot be placed on the oral evidence to rebut the statutory presumption as the credibility of oral evidence vis-a-vis documentary evidence is at a much weaker level – urden of proving relationship of tenancy is on the person who

Where later benches applied it

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