Satish Batra vs Sudhir Rawal on 18 October, 2012
"Learned First Appellate Court has first relied upon the
judgment passed in the case of Satish Batra (Supra).
This Court has carefully read the aforesaid judgment.
The aforesaid judgment is rather helps the defendants-
appellants and not the plaintiff-respondent company. In
the aforesaid judgment, Hon'ble the Supreme Court was
examining the correctness of the Division Bench
judgment of the Delhi High Court, in which out of total
earnest money of ₹ 7,00,000/-, 50,000/- was ₹ permitted
to be forfeited whereas 6,50,000/- was ordered to be ₹
refunded. The Supreme Court after examining the
contract found that earnest money was paid on two
different dates i.e. ₹ ₹ 4,00,000/- on 29.11.2005 and
3,00,000/- on 30.11.2005. The Supreme Court held after
discussing various judgments of the Court that intended
seller was justified in forfeiting the amount of 10% i.e.
7,00,000/-, therefore, the trial Court as well as ₹ First
Appellate Court have not applied the aforesaid
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judgments in correct perspective.