Principal Junior Civil Judge vs Administrator-General Of Bengal And ... on 10 December, 2021
In Erach Boman Khavar vs. Tukaram Shridhar Bhat
and Ors., the Hon'ble Supreme Court in paragraph No.38 while holding
that a subsequent application on the same issue can be filed, had placed a
caveat on such subsequent filing. The Hon'ble Supreme Court took the
view that a subsequent application would not be permissible if it is found
that the earlier application had been disposed of on merits. This
observation came up on the peculiar facts of that case. In the case before
the Hon'ble Supreme Court, an earlier application was disposed of, not on
merits, but on the basis of a submission made that an application for
amendment would not be opposed and subsequently, when such
application was made, the same was dismissed on the ground that the
earlier application had also been dismissed. It was on account of the fact
that the earlier application was not disposed of on merits that the Hon'ble
Supreme Court took the view that the subsequent application was
maintainable.