2010 (9) TMI 1314

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..... Subrahmanya Prasad, Ajay Kumar Mishra, Rajendra Prasad B. and V.N. Raghupathy, Advs. For Respondents : Party-in-person ORDER 1. Leave granted. 2. Heard learned senior counsel for the appellants and respondent appearing in person. 3. The impugned judgment passed by the High Court arose out of regular first appeal filed under Section 96 CPC. It is the grievance of the appellants tha....

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.... (a) the points for determination; (b) the decision thereon; (c) reasons for the decision; and- (d) where the decree appealed from is reversed or varied, the relief to which the appellant is entitled. The appellate Court has jurisdiction to reverse or affirm the findings of the trial Court. The first appeal is a valuable right of the parties and unless restric....

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....ari v. Purushottam Tiwari (2001) 3 SCC 179 : JT (2001) 2 SC 407 and Madhukar and Ors. v. Sangram and Ors. (2001) 4 SCC 756] 5. In view of the above salutary principles, on going through the impugned judgment, we feel that the High Court has failed to discharge the obligation placed on it as a first appellate Court. In our view, the judgment under appeal is cryptic and none of the relevant aspec....