The Supreme Court has ordered the eviction of a tenant’s legal heir and directed the return of the Mansarovar Palace cinema hall in Prayagraj to its rightful owners after 63 years. The court remarked, “We finally bring the curtains down on this long drawn out litigation.”
NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court of India has ruled that advocates are not required to verify whether a power of attorney (PoA) given to them by a litigant is genuine. This decision was made by a bench comprising Justices AS Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan, who clarified that lawyers should only check the document’s authenticity if they have valid reasons to doubt it.
