INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
NEW DELHI: The grandson of a septuagenarian woman from Andhra Pradesh spent four decades of his prime years in the labyrinthine litigation
Seventeen of these years were spent in the Andhra high court, and sixteen in the Supreme Court which has repeatedly ruled that the right to
speedy justice is part of right to life.The woman, Venkubayamma, made a will in May 1981, bequeathing her property in a town in Odisha to
and a will of May 1982 by which she gave him the same property after cancelling the earlier one.The trial court decreed the property in
The high court reversed the decree and ruled in favour of the grandson in 2006
scrutiny of the rival claims
have black hair.Did a woman from the hinterland dye her hair in 1982, was one of the questions posed by the SC bench of Justices C T
The SC was also suspicious as to why the professional photographer engaged to cover the adoption ceremony took only three
is stated to have taken place raises doubt but the same has not been adequately explained
Further, no evidence was adduced to prove that relations between Venkubayamma and Kaliprasad had soured
The document also does not record any reasons as to why Venkubayamma was not happy with Kaliprasad, whose marriage she had performed in
