NARAYAN SINGH Vs. BAHADUR KUNWAR

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THIS is a reference by the Junior Secretray and Chief Inspector of Stamps, Board of Revenue allahabad, under Section 61, Stamp Act.

(2.) THE Inspector of Stamps and Registration Kanpur Circle, in the course of inspection of the records of the Civil Judge's Court, Etawah, defected a document (Paper No. 20 attached to List 32/2c filed in Suit No. 18 of 1947) and was of opinion that it was written in contravention of section 13, Stamp Act and Rule 7 of the Stamp Manual. The document was a composite document consisting of a sale deed and a deed of release, executed by one Kr. Narayan Singh, son of Kr. Sati Singh, resident of village Asjana, Pargana Bidhuna, district Etawah. The stump required on the sale deed and the deed of release was of the value of Rs. 403/2/ -. The treasury supplied the stamp in ten sheets. Seven sheets were used up in writing out the contents of the documents. Three sheets remained. They were utilised by defacing the stamp with a cross and by the parties to the transaction putting their signatures on them. On the seventh sheet on which the body of the document ended was mentioned the fact that ten sheets formed part of the document, Each of the of the three remaining sheets on which there was the cross and the signatures of the parties also showed that they were part of the sale deed execated by Kr. Narayan Singh, son of Kr. Sati Singly fey caste Thakur, resident of village asjana, Pargana Bidhuna district Etawah. They also bore the same number '15' as was given to the rest of the seven sheets. The question was whether on these facts the there sheets could be considered to have been used as directed by section 13, Stamp, Act and R. 7 of the Stamp Manual. In our opinion they were used as directed by law. Section 13 says:

(3.) RULE 7 of the Stamp Rules is as follows;