P&H: Agreement to sell rejected on advocate testimony that he had merely affixed his stamp on draft agreement and had neither written not got agreement typed and no monetary transaction taken place in his presence
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has dismissed a regular second appeal filed by Mahender Singh, who sought specific performance of an alleged agreement to sell agricultural land in Gurugram. Justice Virinder Aggarwal upheld the concurrent decisions of the trial court and the first appellate court, which had rejected his suit.
Singh claimed that Mahavir Singh, a co-owner of the land, agreed in April 2013 to sell it for ₹24 lakh per acre and accepted ₹3 lakh as earnest money. He alleged that Mahavir later refused to execute the sale deed, saying the land had already been sold to another...
