Between the Lines | Supreme Court: Relief of specific performance of a contract is no longer discretionary after the 2018 amendment of the Specific Relief Act, 1963

The Supreme Court (“SC”) has in its judgment dated September 18, 2020 in the matter of B. Santoshamma & Another v. D. Sarala & Another [Civil Appeal No. 3574 of 2009], observed that relief of specific performance of a contract/agreementis no longer discretionary pursuant to the amendment to the Specific Relief Act, 1963 (“SRA”) bought […]