Supreme Court · 2023 INSC 176 · Decided 28 February 2023
Shah Newaz Khan & ORS. v. State of Nagaland & Ors
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2023 INSC 176 · [2023] 3 S.C.R. 985
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1497/2023
- Decided
- 28 February 2023
- Bench
- HRISHIKESH ROY, DIPANKAR DATTA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 24, 25; Constitution Article 214, 231
Headnote
Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - ss.24, 25 - Constitution of India - Arts. 214, 231 - Suit - Transfer of - Appellant-plaintiff moved an application u/s. 24 of CPC before the Gauhati High Court (Common High Court for the states of Assam, Nagaland and two other of a suit filed by appellant in the court of the District Judge, Dimapur, Nagaland to the court of the District Judge at Gauhati, Assam - High Court rejected the transfer application - In appeal before the Supreme Court, issue was: Is the Supreme Court the sole repository of power
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