Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 461 · Decided 9 September 2021
K. N. Nagarajappa & ORS. v. H. Narasimha Reddy
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 461 · [2021] 6 S.C.R. 109
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5033/2009
- Decided
- 9 September 2021
- Bench
- L. NAGESWARA RAO, S. RAVINDRA BHAT (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 103, 100
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - s.103 - High Courts' jurisdiction to appreciate factual issues u/s.103 CPC - Held: High Courts are empowered to exercise limited factual review u/s.103 CPC - The rule that sans a substantial question of law, the High Courts cannot findings of fact, is subject to two important caveats - The first is that, if the findings of fact are palpably perverse or outrage the conscience of the Court; in other words, it flies on the face of logic that given the facts on the record, interference would be justified -
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