27 January 2020
ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT SMT. SHANTI DEVI WIFE OF SRI JHUNNI ... VS GOVERNMENT OF U. P. THROUGH ... ON 28 MARCH, 2006 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Facts of the Case: Though the present petition has been filed assailing the order dated 26.7.2005 passed in revision No. 73/02-03 passed by Deputy Director Consolidation, Mohammdabad, a disconcerting feature forced itself on my notice that the original record containing original document of the petitioner had been missing since the...
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27 January 2020
JHARKHAND HIGH COURT MUKHTAR AHMAD & ORS. VS MAHMUDI KHATOON & ORS. ON 19 MAY, 2010 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction: This appeal is directed against the judgment and decree dated 11.07.2000 (decree signed on 22.07.2000) passed by Sri Ajit Prasad Verma, Sub- Judge-IX, Ranchi in Partition Suit No. 164 of 1993 | 53 of 2000, by which judgment after discussing the case of the parties, the learned Subordinate Judge came to a conclusive finding that the plaintiff is en...
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27 January 2020
DELHI HIGH COURT SHEIKH ANIS AHMAD VS STATE & ORS ON 16 MARCH, 2011 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction: This is an appeal filed by the appellant who sought letters of administration regarding Will dated 20.11.1984 allegedly executed by Mst. Nawab Begum, the deceased testatrix. The third respondent on the other hand contested the said probate petition. While describing the will relied upon by the appellant as forged and fabricated, she also set up another Will dated...
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27 January 2020
DELHI HIGH COURT MOHD FAROOQ KHAN VS ZUBEDA KHATOON AND ORS. ON 22 MARCH, 2013 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction: The plaintiff (Mohd. Farooq Khan) has filed a suit for partition and injunction. He is the son of Abdul Waheed Khan who was the owner of a double storied house bearing No. C-24/A, Block-C, Okhla Vihar, New Delhi-110025. Abdul Waheed Khan had died on 05.08.2006 leaving behind his widow, two sons and three daughters. Defendant No. 1 who is the widow of l...
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27 January 2020
DELHI DISTRICT COURT NASIM BANO VS INTIZAR AHMED & ORS ON 18 JULY, 2014 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Facts of the Case: Plaintiff has filed the present suit for partition, possession and permanent injunction on the ground that plaintiff and defendants are brothers and sisters. Late Sh. Hanifa Begum was the absolute owner of property bearing H. No. M-287, near Bismillah Masjid, Gali No. 1, Subhash Mohalla, Maujpur Delhi measuring 55 Sq. Yds. (hereinafter to be referred as...
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27 January 2020
DELHI HIGH COURT ABDUL MAJEED & ANR. VS HAMMAD AHMED & ORS. ON 27 NOVEMBER, 2018 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction: The present interlocutory appeals are from a common order of a learned Single Judge, made in two suits. The first suit [CS(OS) 162/2017- hereafter "the first suit"] - filed by Asad Mueed (who and his brother Abdul Majeed are called the "Asad Mueed" group), is primarily against Hammad Ahmed and his son Hamid Ahmed (hereafter "Hammad" and "the Hammad g...
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27 January 2020
KARNATAKA HIGH COURT JOSEPH VARGHESE CHEERAN VS. SMT. ROSY KURIAN KANNAIKAL DATED : 27.09.1999 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction : This appeal has been filed under Section 19(1) of the Family Courts Act, 1984 (in short "the Act") against the judgment and decree dated 5th December, 1998 passed by the Family Court, Bangalore, in M.C. No. 648 of 1994 dissolving the marriage between the contesting parties under the provisions of the Indian Divorce Act, 1869 (in short,...
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27 January 2020
BOMBAY HIGH COURT MINOO RUSTOMJI SHROFF & ORS. VS. UOI & ORS. DATED : 10.03.2005 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction : The petitioners, who are the trustees of the Parsi Panchayat Funds and Properties have sought a declaration that the learned Presiding Judge of the Parsi Chief Matrimonial Court at Bombay does not have jurisdiction to pass a decree of divorce by mutual consent under the Parsi Marriage And Divorce Act, 1936 without seeking aid/assistance from the del...
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27 January 2020
KERALA HIGH COURT SAUMYA ANN THOMAS VS UOI DATED : 25.02.2010 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction : Is the stipulation of a period of two years as the minimum mandatory period of separate residence in Sec.10A(1) of the Divorce Act right, just and fair? Is it arbitrary, fanciful and oppressive? Does that stipulation offend Art.14 and/or Art.21 of the Constitution? Does that stipulation deserve to be read down to "one year" to save the provision from the vice of uncon...
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27 January 2020
BOMBAY HIGH COURT RUSSI JAL DORABJEE & ORS…. Applicants VS. BHARAT DALPAT PATEL & ORS DATED : 12.12.2017 Summarised Judgement (Scroll for Complete Judgement) Introduction : The Flat was purchased by Ms. Ivy Framroze Cooper (‘Ivy’). Ivy passed away intestate on 30th July, 1995 leaving behind, her husband -Keki Jehangir Munshi (‘Keki’), her sisters - Jer Mithaiwala, Sheroo Dorabjee (wife of Plaintiff No. 1) and Putli Kersi Dodhi - Plaintiff No. 2 and two brothers i.e Burjor Framroze Cooper - Plain...
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