This is a second appeal challenging a High Court decree that set aside a partition deed. The Supreme Court disagreed with the High Court's reliance on necessity and affirmed the validity of the partition among multiple heirs.
The impugned order setting aside the partition was set aside; the partition deed was affirmed.
This page shows the compact analysis of this judgement. The full analysis — procedural history, issue-by-issue holdings with ratio and obiter, advocates, and paragraph-level evidence for every claim — is being added to the record in batches and will appear here when this judgement has been through it.
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S.B. Civil Second Appeal No. 127/2018 Smt. Shanti Devi & Ors. Vs. Shyam Sunder & Ors.
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1 issue framed by the court
Whether the High Court Erred in setting aside the Partition Decree and passing an order for unity in partition.
Smt. Shanti Devi
Smt. Aparna
Vandana
Surendra
Narendra
Shyam Sunder Sharma
Justice Vijayendra Kelkar
Justice Rajesh Aتری
Justice S.M. Sikri
Justice B.R. Desai
Justice H. R. Khanna
As recorded by the court registry
Judgements on the same questions, provisions and authorities, from every court
