N.S.Rama Devi, vs V. Chitti Babu, on 10 May, 2024
In Miss Sandra Lesley Anna Bartels vs. Miss. P.
Gunavath, a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court had taken
the view that under Section 33 of the Indian Stamp Act, 1899 (for
short ‗the Stamp Act'), an insufficiently stamped instrument would
require to be impounded the moment the insufficient stamp on the
instrument is brought to the notice of the Court. Sri P.S.P. Suresh
Kumar would submit that a logical corollary of the judgment would
be that no unstamped document can be returned even after disposal
of the suit without the same being impounded as the duty to
impound the document arises the moment the
document/instrument is presented to the Court.