Supreme Court · 2025 INSC 606 · Decided 29 April 2025
K. Valarmathi & ORS. v. Kumaresan
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2025 INSC 606 · [2025] 4 S.C.R. 2461
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5677/2025
- Decided
- 29 April 2025
- Bench
- PAMIDIGHANTAM SRI NARASIMHA, JOYMALYA BAGCHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 227; Constitution Article 227
Headnote
Can the High Court in exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction under Article 227 reject a plaint. Constitution of India - Art.227 - Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - Supervisory jurisdiction - Rejection of plaint by the High Court of the power under Article 227 being supervisory, it cannot be invoked to usurp the original jurisdiction of the court which it seeks to supervise - Nor can it be invoked to supplant a statutory legal remedy under the Civil Procedure Code, 1908 - Civil Procedure Code is a
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