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33. This issue surrounds the validity or otherwise of the sale deed dated 22.07.2015 executed by the first and second plaintiffs in favour of the second defendant.
34. It is the case of the plaintiffs that the sale deed is void on the ground of fraud.
35. Section 17 of the Indian Contract Act 1872 defines fraud, which is as follows:-
https://www.mhc.tn.gov.in/judis ( Uploaded on: 20/08/2025 05:34:44 pm ) “17. 'Fraud' defined.— 'Fraud' means and includes any of the following acts committed by a party to a contract, or with his connivance, or by his agent', with intent to deceive another party thereto or his agent, or to induce him to enter into the contract:— (1) the suggestion, as a fact, of that which is not true, by one who does not believe it to be true;
46. Section 17 of the Indian Contract Act which defines fraud relates to a contract and fraud being committed to coerce entering into a contract by one of the parties to the contract.
47. In the instant case, the sale deed had been executed by the first and second plaintiffs in favour of hte second defendant. No pleadings had been advanced that the second defendant had induced the first and second plaintiffs to enter into the deed of sale.