C.Venkatesulu S/O Late C. Venkataramanappa v. Smt.Ammisetty Parvathi W/O Ammisetty
Case brief
What is this about?
RFA dismissed; Karnataka HC Dharwad Bench upholds trial court decree in partition suit O.S.No.221/2014 (Ballari); nominal/benami purchase theory rejected — burden of proof on claimants unmet (no income returns, no proof of father's funds despite admitted business loss); consideration found probably paid by defendant and her husband via bank transfers by husband to his mother shortly before execution (sale deed 10.12.1981, father acted as Power of Attorney); fallback holding: Section 14 Hindu Succession Act 1956 vests full and absolute ownership in named female purchaser; schedule 'B' claim unsupported by pleading or evidence, property disposed of long back; joint family property / coparcenary partition claim fails; appellate deference to trial court findings of fact; no monetary award.
What did the court decide?
Point No.1 is answered against the plaintiffs: they failed to prove that the 'A' schedule property was nominally purchased by their father in the name of the defendant.