Moturu Nalini Kanth vs. Gainedi Kaliprasad (Dead, through LRs.) (SC)

Hindu Adoption & Maintenance Act, 1954–Sec. 16–Presumption as to registered document relating to adoption–Rebuttal of–Mere registration of adoption deed does not absolve the person asserting such adoption from proving the fact by cogent evidence–Various suspicious circumstances are attached to the adoption ceremony–Document does not record any reason as to why V was not happy with her grandson–Further, the occasions of taking the adoption would not be kept secret or confidential as such occasions usually be made with much pump and celebration–No cogent evidence of family members of V in support of adoption–Other witnesses also cannot be treated reliable–No pictures of actual giving and taking of the child in adoption and datta homam–Discrepancy in regard to the temple where the adoption was alleged to be taken–Doubts as regard to signatures on adoption deed–Held, adoption is not proved in accordance with law despite the registration of adoption deed.