Supreme Court of India

Dhanpat v. Sheo Ram (deceased) through Lrs. & Ors.

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Reported as [2020] 7 S.C.R. 131

Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Hemant Gupta JJ.

Decided 19 March 2020

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What the Court ordered

Held as under: 15 (2014) 15 SCC 578 16 (2014) 15 SCC 570 149 “.

Judgment, page 18

From the headnote

Indian Succession Act, 1925: s. 63 – Will – Admissibility of – Suit seeking declarati on that the plaintiff, his mother and his sisters had equal share in the suit land which was given to defendant No. 5 by way of a Will – Th e Will was challenged as being result of fraud and misrepr esentation – Trial Court as well as first Appellate Court dismissed the sui t holding that plaintiff had no share in the property as partition of t he property had already been done during lifetime of the testator a nd that the Will had been duly proved – High Court in second appeal decre ed the suit on the

Authorities it was built on

1958 H. Venkatachala Iyengar v. B. N. Thimmajamma & Others cited by 35
2002 Janki Narayan Bhoir v. Narayan Namdeo Kadam cited by 16
2016 Pankajakshi (dead) through Lrs. & Others v. Chandrika & Others cited by 13
1996 Dr. Bipin Shantilal Panchal v. State of Gujarat cited by 9
2019 Randhir Kaur v. Prithvi Pal Singh & Ors. cited by 5
2014 Leela Rajagopal & Ors. v. Kamala Menon Cocharan & Ors. cited by 4
2001 Bipin Shantilalpanchal v. State of Gujarat and Anr. cited by 3
1969 M. L. Abdul Jabhar Sahib v. H. V. Venkata Sastri & Sons & Ors. cited by 3
2001 N. Kamalam (dead) and Anr. v. Ayyasamy and Anr. cited by 3
1976 Seth Beni Chand (since Dead) Now by L.rs. v. Smt. Kamla Kunwar and Others cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2026 Tharammel Peethambaran v. T. Ushakrishnan referred to
2025 Gurdial Singh (dead) through Lr v. Jagir Kaur (dead) and Anr. Etc. referred to

Of those, 2 referred to

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