Supreme Court of India

P. Kishore Kumar v. Vittal K. Patkar

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Reported as [2023] 14 S.C.R. 796

Bench Bela M. Trivedi and Dipankar Datta JJ.

Decided 20 November 2023

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the Trial Court erred in decreeing the suit by placing on a higher probative pedestal the revenue entries.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Issue for consideration: The plaintiﬀ ’s vendor applied u/s. 9A of the Mysore (Personal & Miscellaneous) Inam Abolition Act, 1954 and sought occupancy rights in respect of 15 acres of Sy. No. 3. According to the plaintiﬀ , the claim of the plaintiﬀ ’s vendor succeeded before the Special Deputy Commissioner of Inams. However, the appellant -defendant alleged that the Commissioner’s order granted occupa ncy rights u/s. 9 in favour of his predecessor-in-interest. Trial Court after examining revenue records adduced by the plaintiﬀ and the Commissioner’s order, held that the ownership of the suit

Authorities it was built on

2003 R.v.f Venkatachala Gounder v. Arulmigu Viswesaraswami and V.P. Temple and Anr. cited by 25
1996 Smt. Sawarni v. Smt. Inder Kaur and Ors. cited by 10
2014 Union of India and Others v. Vasavi Co-op. Housing Society Ltd. and Others cited by 4
2006 Gurdev Kaur and Ors. v. Kaki and Ors cited by 4
1977 Sita Ram Bhau Patil v. Ramchandra Nago Patil (dead) by L.rs. & Anr. cited by 3
2019 Jagdish Prasad Patel (dead) Thr. Lrs.& Another v. Shivnath & Others cited by 2
1969 Somnath Barman v. Dr. S. P. Raju & Anr. cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 N.P. Saseendran v. N.P. Ponnamma & Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 referred to

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