Refund Cannot Be Ordered Decades After Sale Executed Pursuant to Specific Performance Decree, Supreme Court Holds It Inequitable: Supreme Court
The Supreme Court has allowed an appeal by the legal representatives of Sobaran Singh, restoring a Trial Court decree concerning a registered agreement to sell dated 16.06.1975. The dispute involved about 5 bighas of agricultural land located around 3 km from Agra. The agreed sale price was Rs. 20,000, of which Rs. 5,000 was paid in advance. The Trial Court had decreed specific performance and the property was subsequently sold…