Deed Granting Fishing Rights Constitutes Transfer of Immovable Property and Amounts to a Lease: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has dismissed an appeal challenging the demand for stamp duty on a document granting fishing rights in the Sharda Sagar Jalashya in Pilibhit, Uttar Pradesh. A Bench of Justice Prashant Kumar Mishra and Justice Shree Chandrashekhar delivered the reportable order in Civil Appeal No. 2412/2011 on 15.07.2026. The dispute concerned a document titled “licence for fishing”, granted to Zaki Ullah Khan after he won an auction conducted…
