Supreme Court of India

Mahesh Datiatray Thirthkar v. State of Maharashtra

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Reported as [2009] 3 S.C.R. 1122

Bench Tarun Chatterjee and V.S. Sirpurkar JJ.

Decided 4 March 2009

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What the Court ordered

We hold that this Court would not be permitted to interfere with D the findings of fact arrived at by the High Court orr·consideration of the materials on record, oral and documentary, in that case, the question of going into the other aspects of the matter, which was argued by the learned counsel for the parties, would not arise at all.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Constitution of India, 1950: c Arlicle 136 - Exercise of power under- Scope of - Held: Power thereunder is exercisable not only against judgment of reversal on facts but also in cases of concurrent findings off act - Supreme Courl would ordinarily not interfere with the findings of fact arrived at by High Courl unless conclusions of High Courl are manifestly perverse or unsupporlable from evidence on record - On facts, findings made by High Courl were arbitrary causing serious miscarriage of justice as against the claimant by denying him a just and reasonable compensation for properly

Authorities it was built on

1990 Othayath Lekshmy and Anr. v. Nellachinkuniyil Govindan Nair and Ors. cited by 2
2007 State of Rajasthan v. Netrapal and Ors. cited by 1
1994 The Special Land Acquisition Officer and Anr. Etc. v. Sri Sidappa Omanna Tumari and Ors. Etc. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 Dharmrao Sharanappa Shabadi and Others v. Syeda Arifa Parveen relied on
2022 Shiv Kumar Sharma v. State of Rajasthan relied on
2019 Jagdish Prasad Patel (dead) Thr. Lrs.& Another v. Shivnath & Others relied on
2018 Kerala State Electricity Board and Anr v. Kurien E. Kalathil and Anr. relied on
2014 Ananda Poojary v. State of Karnataka relied on
2022 Gulf Oil Corporation Ltd. v. The State of Telangana & Ors. referred to
2022 Union of India v. Premlata and Others referred to
2019 Ashoksinh Jayendrasinh v. State of Gujarat referred to
2022 Md. Jabbar Ali & Ors. v. The State of Assam mentioned

Of those, 5 relied on · 3 referred to · 1 mentioned

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