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Deposit of title deed requires stamp duty & if it is mortgage , it requires registration though styled as Deposit of title deed = It is relevant here to state that letter dated 29th March, 2007 of the Finance Commissioner inter alia makes instrument of deposit of title-deeds compulsorily registerable under Section 17(1)(c) of the Registration Act. However, the parties may choose to have a memorandum prepared only showing deposit of the title-deeds. In such a case also registration is not required. But in a case in which the memorandum recorded in writing creates right, liability or extinguishes those, same requires registration.=The document was executed on a white paper. Article 7 of Schedule 1-A of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 was amended by substituting the said Article under the Act 19 of 2005 w.e.f. 01-08-2005 requiring proper stamp duty. Article 35 of Schedule 1-A of the Act deals with Mortgage deed. In either of the cases, it requires stamp duty and if it is a mortgage deed, it further requires registration though it is styled as Memorandum of Deposit of Title deeds.

Rasta rights - Requires No Registration =licence is granted to Satyanarayana, the plaintiff, to use the same passage which was already in existence and which was provided for the lands of the said Krishna Rao @ Krishnamurthy, the executant of the document. Admittedly, no title or ownership over the said passage is created under the document in favour of Satyanarayana, the plaintiff, who is the beneficiary under the document. He was only permitted to reach his lands through the said passage, which passage the executant of the document has already provided for his lands. Therefore, to my mind the document in question created no right in immovable property; and, only irrevocable permission was accorded under it to use the existing passage by granting licence so to say. Viewed thus, this court finds that the document in question does not require registration.

A divorced Muslim woman is entitled for maintenance during the iddat period in view of Section 3 (i) (a) of the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986

Right of lateral support to the property is not a right of easement but is an incidence of proprietary title and hence a natural right protected under section 7 of the Easements Act. No matter respondent has described that right as an easement by prescription but, what is meant is the right to get lateral support for plaint A schedule item No.1 which is situated at a higher level from the property of appellants. Claim made by the respondent is to enforce his natural right. - land owner is entitled to get lateral support for his land from the adjoining land and that when that right is infringed remedy of the person threatened with injury is to seek restoration of lateral support.-right for lateral support stands as natural justice and is essential to the protection and enjoyment of the property in the soil. That right of the respondent has to be protected.

DNA test = the husbands plea that he had no access to the wife when the child was begotten stands proved by the DNA test report as, in the facts and circumstances of the case, it is possible to opine that the proof based on DNA test would be sufficient to dislodge the presumption under Section 112 of the Evidence Act. -The trial Court shall accordingly direct the petitioner, the respondent and the child of the respondent by name Shiva Kumar to undergo DNA test by referring them to Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Habsiguda, Hyderabad. However, it is made clear that in case the respondent/wife accepts the directions that the trial court may issue in pursuance of the orders of this court, the DNA report will determine the conclusiveness of the veracity of the accusation levelled by the petitioner against her; but, in case she declines to comply with the directions, the allegations of the husband would be determined by the court below by drawing a presumption of the nature contemplated under section 114 of the Evidence Act especially in terms of illustration (h) thereof.

the version that when the second respondent asked the petitioner to repay the misappropriated amount, an altercation took place between both of them and in the course of the said altercation, the petitioner abused the second respondent in his caste name seems to be inherently improbable and ex facie false. It would clearly appear that the said allegation was invented by the second respondent for the purpose of fixing the petitioner in a false charge under the Act.