Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 938 · Decided 10 March 2014
Phool Chandra & ANR. v. State of U.P.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 938 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 97
- Case number
- Criminal Miscellaneous Petition No. 2448/2014
- Decided
- 10 March 2014
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, JASTI CHELAMESWAR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Criminal
- Acts & sections cited
- IPC Section 363, 366, 506; Constitution Article 136
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950: Article 136 - Special leave C petition - Maintainability of - In the instant case, petitioners were convicted by trial court - Appeal before High Court - Bail granted by High Court - Application by petitioner for early hearing of appeal wherein up the case before appropriate Bench - SLP against the order of the High D Court - Held: The power u/Article 136 is to be invoked not in a routine manner but in very exceptional circumstances when a question of iaw of general public importance arises or impugned decision shocks the conscience of
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