Objection To Admissibility Of Document For Insufficiency Of Stamp Has To Be Taken When It Is Tendered In Evidence ; Court Cannot De-Exhibit It Later: Supreme Court
Live LawThe Supreme Court observed that the objection as to admissibility of a document on the ground of sufficiency of stamp, has to raised when the document is tendered in evidence.Thereafter, it is not open to the parties, or even the court to reexamine the order or issue, the bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and J K Maheshwari observed.In this case, a document purporting to be an unregistered. The Supreme Court observed that the objection as to admissibility of a document on the ground of sufficiency of stamp, has to raised when the document is tendered in evidence. Thereafter, it is not open to the parties, or even the court to reexamine the order or issue, the bench of Justices Sanjiv Khanna and J K Maheshwari observed. Vs. Pukhraj Surana, 2 SCR 333 and Shyamal Kumar Roy Vs. Sushil Kumar Agarwal, 11 SCC 331, the bench observed: "Once a document has been admitted in evidence, such admission cannot be called in question at any stage of the suit or proceedings on the ground that the instrument has not been duly stamped.
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