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1 - 3 of 3 (0.20 seconds)Article 226 in Constitution of India [Constitution]
Surya Dev Rai vs Ram Chander Rai & Ors on 7 August, 2003
In Surya Dev Rai v.
Ram Chander Rai this Court has ruled that
to be amenable to correction in certiorari
jurisdiction, the error committed by the
court or authority on whose judgment the
High Court was exercising jurisdiction,
should be an error which is self-evident. An
error which needs to be established by
lengthy and complicated arguments or by
indulging in a long-drawn process of
reasoning, cannot possibly be an error
available for correction by writ of certiorari.
If it is reasonably possible to form two
opinions on the same material, the finding
arrived at one way or the other, cannot be
called a patent error. As to the exercise of
supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court
under Article 227 of the Constitution also,
it has been held in Surya Dev Rai [(2003) 6
SCC 675] that the jurisdiction was not
available to be exercised for indulging in
reappreciation or evaluation of evidence or
correcting the errors in drawing inferences
like a court of appeal. The High Court has
itself recorded in its judgment that --
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