A Registered Sale Deed Is Not a Joke: Supreme Court on When Courts Should (and Should Not) Call a Sale “Sham”

Hemalatha (D) by LRs v. Tukaram (D) by LRs & Ors., Civil Appeal No. 6640 of 2010, 2026 INSC 82 (Supreme Court of India) Introduction Property disputes often travel long roads, but few raise a question as fundamental as this one:Can a registered sale deed be brushed aside as a “sham” simply because one party