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Sky is the limit for our powers: SC

Sky is the limit for our powers: SC

 

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.” Pope Paul VI quotes

 

Amidst criticism of judicial activism, the Supreme Court today asserted that sky is the limit for exercising its extraordinary Constitutional powers to pass any order in the interest of justice, even if it means bypassing statutory provisions.

 

A bench of justices H L Dattu and H L Gokhale passed the ruling while restoring the charge under Section 489A (harassment of wife) by husband or other family members against a police officer A Subash Babu on the complaint of his second wife.

 

The apex court rejected the AP High Court's reasoning that since marriage of the accused with another woman during the subsistence of the first marriage was void, the second wife cannot a lodge a complaint under Section 498A.

 

"Article 136 is a special jurisdiction. It is residuary power. It is extraordinary in its amplitude. The limits of Supreme Court when it chases injustice, is the sky itself. Further, the powers under Article 136 can be exercised by the Supreme Court, in favour of a party even suo motu when the court is satisfied that compelling grounds for its exercise exist," Justice Panchal writing the judgement observed.

 

Under Article 136 the apex court can grant permission to a person to appeal against any order/judgement of the high court or any subordinate court or tribunal.

 

The apex court further said that in bigamy cases, the magistrate can take cognisance of the offence on the basis of a police report also and it was not necessary that there should be direct complaint from victim or some other family member.

Source; https://www.deccanherald.com/content/178347/sky-limit-our-powers-sc.html

 



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I totally agree with the assertion of the judges of the Supreme court of NRI(Non-Resident Indian) sorry India. "Your Lordsheeps" are supreme and vested with the power of a monarch. My only observation which demean every other good things done, said and delivered by the " Your LoedSheeps' is they are yet come out from the Manuwadi Manhoos  mentality and tend to preside over the Hindu Rastra instead of a trully democratic secular socialist country with 20 % Minority Community, 65% Lower castes amongst Majority Hindu Community.

Or Else barring a few over reach and a few more under reach apex court has delivered justice when Hindutva vs Islamabad  was not the issue.


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