Evidence Act, 1872–Secs. 107 & 108 [Corresponding Secs. 110 & 111 of BSA, 2023]–Suit for declaration of civil death of N–Dismissed–Plaintiffs failed to adduce any cogent evidence that N was not alive and they had not seen him for more than seven years immediately preceding the date of filing the suit–They admitted in cross-examination that they filed the suit to get the benefit on account of death of N–Held, suit was rightly dismissed.


