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A. SANTHOSH REDDY
Giriprasad Reddy – Appellant
Versus
S. Ram Reddy – Respondent
ORDER :
This civil revision petition is directed against the order, dated 29.09.2016 in I.A.No.1162 of 2014 in O.S.No.77 of 2011 on the file of IX Additional Chief Judge, City Civil Court, Hyderabad.
2. Heard the learned counsel for the petitioners and the learned counsel for the respondent Nos.1 and 4 to 7. Perused the record.
3. During the pendency of this revision, respondent No.1 died and his legal representatives were brought on record as respondent Nos.4 to 7.
4. The petitioner/plaintiff filed suit for specific performance of oral contract against respondent Nos.1 to 3/defendant Nos.1 to 3. Respondent Nos.1 to 3 filed written statement. While so, respondent No.1 filed I.A.No.1162 of 2014 under Section 33 read with Section 35 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (for short “the Stamp Act”) to impound the documents i.e. acknowledgments/receipts dated 08.04.2010 and 16.04.2010 filed by the petitioner herein on the ground that they sought to be utilized as “instrument” for proving the plea of the alleged relinquishment. As such, the said documents would have to be constituted as ‘Deeds of Conveyance’ as defined under Section 2 (10) of the Stamp Act and both the documents are chargeable to s
Documents must be duly stamped to be admissible in evidence; the court has the authority to impound insufficiently stamped documents under the Karnataka Stamp Act.
The court confirmed that a document evidencing possession transfers its status from an agreement to a conveyance, thus imposing requisite stamp duty as per statutory provisions.
Stamp duty is on instrument and not on transaction – For several documents to form part of a single transaction, there must be a transaction in furtherance of which several other documents are execut....
Under the Indian Stamp Act, once a document is found to be insufficiently stamped, the court is duty-bound to impound the document and send it to the Collector for proper assessment and payment of th....
The main legal point established in the judgment is the admissibility of unregistered and insufficiently stamped documents for collateral purpose, the application of the provisions of the Stamp Act, ....
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