Supreme Court of India

Seetharama Shetty v. Monappa Shetty

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Reported as [2024] 9 S.C.R. 166
Bench Hrishikesh Roy and S.V.N. Bhatti JJ.
Decided 2 September 2024

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What the Court ordered

For the above reasons, the direction to pay ten times the penalty of the deficit stamp duty merits interference and accordingly is set aside.

Judgment, page 19

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Scope of Sections 33, 34, 37, 39 of the Karnataka Stamp Act, 1957; whether the agreement of sale dated 29.06.1999, with a recital on delivery of possession to the appellant, conforms to the definition of conveyance under Section 2(d) read with Article 20(1) of the Schedule of the Act or not; whether in the facts and the circumstances of the case, the penalty determined by the trial Court on the instrument instead of sending the instrument to the District Registrar for determination and collection of penalty as may be applicable is legal; whether, the said order of

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 mentioned

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