https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196702 Substantial compliance with pleadings is sufficient where a petition under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act clearly sets out the line of succession and the substance of the claim to hereditary office. A rigid insistence on express pleading of the precise custom of succession is unwarranted when the pleaded facts and evidence show devolution by hereditary right or nomination by the existing office-holder and no prejudice is demonstrated. The Tribunal's acceptance of a Guru-to-Chela succession was therefore supportable on the material, and the petition was not incompetent for want of sufficient pleadings; the petitioner was entitled to be treated as a hereditary office-holder. en-us Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 12 Dec 2017 17:03:09 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196702 Substantial compliance with pleadings is sufficient where a petition under the Sikh Gurdwaras Act clearly sets out the line of succession and the substance of the claim to hereditary office. A rigid insistence on express pleading of the precise custom of succession is unwarranted when the pleaded facts and evidence show devolution by hereditary right or nomination by the existing office-holder and no prejudice is demonstrated. The Tribunal's acceptance of a Guru-to-Chela succession was therefore supportable on the material, and the petition was not incompetent for want of sufficient pleadings; the petitioner was entitled to be treated as a hereditary office-holder. Case-Laws Indian Laws Mon, 20 May 1996 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=196702