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Allahabad High Court holds revision order defective for admitting without condoning the delay

The Court, not doubting the bona fides of the District Judge, maintained the legal position of Section 5 stating that revision order was a defective one without condoning the delay. There may be instances where the interest of justice may demand Court’s interference to avoid frustration of proceedings due to technicalities, however, in the present instance nothing restrained the District Judge from deciding Section 5 application.

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Law on Rejection of Plaint | Contents of plaint or Examining sufficiency of plaint? Del HC explains the bounden duty of Court

Delhi High Court: Prateek Jalan, J., expressed that, For the purposes of an order under Order VII Rule 11 of the CPC,

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Kar HC | ‘thou art weighed and found wanting’; Writ Court exercising limited supervisory jurisdiction under Art. 227 Constitution of India cannot run a race of opinions with the Court of impugned order

Karnataka High Court: Krishna S. Dixit, J. dismissed the petition being devoid of merits. Background The facts of the case are such

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J&K HC | Supervisory jurisdiction is to be exercised sparingly only in appropriate cases for purposes of keeping Subordinate courts and Tribunals within bounds of their authorities; Petition dismissed

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: Javed Iqbal Wani J., while dismissing the present petition, discusses the ambit and scope of Article 227

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Jhar HC | Petition cannot be rejected merely on ground of mentioning wrong provision – contents of petition must be considered for the sake of justice

Jharkhand High Court: Sujit Narayan Prasad, J. dismissed the writ petition filed under Article 227 of the Constitution of India. This is

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MP HC | Supervisory jurisdiction under Art. 227 not available to correct mere errors of fact or law

Madhya Pradesh High Court: Vinay Kumar Shukla, J., upheld the decision of the Railway Claims Tribunal by dismissing a petition filed under

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MP HC | Possibility of a different view not a good ground to interfere in limited supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227

Madhya Pradesh High Court: The petitioners invoked Article 227 of the Constitution before the Bench of Sheel Nagu, J., seeking a decree

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MP HC | Court refuses to exercise writ jurisdiction in light of alternate remedy of appeal before STAT

Madhya Pradesh High Court: An application filed before a Bench of Sheel Nagu, J., by petitioner for grant of permit for the

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J&K HC | Petition for additional pleas rejected as nothing new pleaded in written statement

Jammu and Kashmir High Court: A Bench of Sanjeev Kumar, J. dismissed a petition filed against the order of a Subordinate Civil

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Recovery Proceedings| Primary forum (DRT) being in Ernakulam, Kerala HC has supervisory jurisdiction over DRAT, Chennai

Kerala High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Dama Seshadri Naidu, J. while hearing an original petition in a debt recovery

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Supervisory jurisdiction of High Court under Article 227 confined to examining if the lower court has proceeded within its jurisdiction

Karnataka High Court: A Single judge bench comprising of H.G. Ramesh, J. while hearing a civil writ petition against an interlocutory order

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Supervisory jurisdiction of High Court under Art. 227 is limited and narrow

Allahabad High Court: The Court recently dismissed a revision petition assailing the order of Addl. District Judge noting that in supervisory jurisdiction