{"id":28364,"date":"2026-07-22T06:50:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:50:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/?p=28364"},"modified":"2026-07-22T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T06:58:44","slug":"supreme-court-clarifies-section-68-evidence-act-registered-sale-deeds-need-no-attesting-witness-r-veronica-2026-insc-703","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalserviceindia.com\/Legal-Articles\/supreme-court-clarifies-section-68-evidence-act-registered-sale-deeds-need-no-attesting-witness-r-veronica-2026-insc-703\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Clarifies Section 68 Evidence Act: Registered Sale Deeds Need No Attesting Witness | R. Veronica (2026 INSC 703)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/span>R. Veronica Reaffirmed, Rattan Singh Reconciled: A Fortified Survey of the Attestation Jurisprudence<\/span><\/h1>\n\n\n\n

A registered sale deed is not a document \u201crequired by law to be attested,” and Section 68 of the Indian Evidence Act, 1872, therefore does not mandate proof of such a deed by examining an attesting witness, even where marginal or attesting witnesses are in fact present on the document. The Supreme Court in R. Veronica & Anr. v. Rudrayani Devaki (D) through LRs, S. Satha Kumar & Ors., 2026 INSC 703<\/strong>, decided on 14 July 2026 by a bench of Justices J.B. Pardiwala and Manoj Misra, has authoritatively reaffirmed and clarified this position, correcting what it termed \u201cegregious errors\u201d in the Kerala High Court’s application of Section 68 in a regular second appeal arising from a decades-old dispute over land in Kerala.<\/p>

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