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IN THE HIGH COURT OF CHHATTISGARH AT BILASPUR
NARENDRA KUMAR VYAS
Omkar Soni, S/o. Late Babulal Soni – Appellant
Versus
Punai Bai, W/o. Bhagoli Satnami – Respondent
| Table of Content |
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| 1. plaintiff's appeal under cpc initiated. (Para 1 , 2) |
| 2. plaintiff's claim for specific performance detailed. (Para 3) |
| 3. defendants' counterarguments and evidence presented. (Para 4 , 5) |
| 4. trial court's ruling according to evidentiary issues. (Para 10 , 11) |
| 5. court's discretion on contract performance. (Para 27 , 28 , 29) |
| 6. appeal dismissed, no legal error found. (Para 36 , 37 , 38) |
JUDGMENT :
NARENDRA KUMAR VYAS, J.
1. The plaintiff has filed this First appeal under Section 96 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 against the judgment and decree dated 16-2-2018 passed by the learned District Judge, Rajnandgaon in Civil Suit No. 75-A/2012 by which the suit filed by the plaintiff has been dismissed.
2. For the sake of convenience, the parties would be referred to hereinafter as per their status shown in the Civil Suit No. 75-A/2012 before the trial Court.
3. Brief Facts reflected from the record are that:
(a) The plaintiff filed suit before the trial Court for specific performance of contract mainly contending that the defendant No.1 Punai Bai who is having land bearing Khasra No. 296 and 365 admeasuring 1.02 acres and 0.78 acres total admeasuring 1.80 acres of land situat
The court upheld the discretion to deny specific performance when serious doubts exist regarding the execution or genuineness of an agreement and recognized the rights of bona fide purchasers.
Comparison of signatures by Court is always a hazardous course. Court should not as a matter of course loosely resort to application of Section 73 of Indian Evidence Act.
The court emphasized the importance of matching signatures, entitlement to raise the plea of readiness and willingness despite denying the execution of documents, the effect of material interpolation....
The requirement to prove the execution of an agreement to sell is essential for specific performance.
Point of Law : Suit for specific performance and permanent injunction – Agreement of Sale - non mentioning of the correct survey number in the agreement of sale cannot be held to be due to inadverten....
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