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Banker's receipt, a banker's receipt is a document issued by the seller bank acknowledging that it has received money for the sale of a particular security. It implies that the subject security is not readily available for delivery and that the same shall be delivered against the return of banker's receipt duly discharged, and in the meantime the securities are held by the seller bank on account of the purchaser, Citi Bank N.A. v. Standard Chartered Bank, (2004) 6 SCC 1 (16).

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