Supreme Court of India

Mohd. Arif @ashfaq v. He Registrar, Supreme Court of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 11 S.C.R. 1009

Bench R.M. Lodha, Jagdish Singh Khehar, J. Chelameswar, A.K. Sikri and R.F. Nariman JJ.

Decided 2 September 2014

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From the headnote

Supreme Court Rules, 1966 - Or. XL r.3 - Constitutionality of - Challenged -:- Seeking open court oral hearing of Review Petitions in death sentence cases - Held: Per majority: Limited oral hearing at review stage in death sentence cases is mandated by Art. 21 of the Constitutio_n, hence permissible - Per Minority: Not permissible - There is no obligation u!Art. 21 to grant oral hearing - The rule of audi alteram partem does not take within its sweep right to make oral submission - Constitution of India, 1950- Arts. 21 and 137. Disposing of the writ petitions, the Court HELD: MAJORITY

Authorities it was built on

2008 Swamy Shraddananda @ Murali Manohar Mishra v. State of Karnataka cited by 55
2009 Santosh Kumar Satishbhushan Bariyar v. State of Maharashtra cited by 54
1989 Smt. Triveniben & -ors. v. State of Gujarat & Ors. cited by 42
2014 Shatrughan Chauhan & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 21
2005 Kamalanantha and Ors. v. State of Tamil Nadu cited by 5
1983 Sher Singh & Others v. The State of Punjab cited by 4

Where later benches applied it

2017 Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. State of Maharashtra relied on
2023 Sundar @ Sundarrajan v. State by Inspector of Police followed
2019 H Manoharan v. State by Inspector of Police, Variety Hall Police Station, Coimbatore (review Petition (crl.) Nos.446-447 of 2019) in followed
2025 Vasanta Sampat Dupare v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2023 Kaushal Kishor v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2022 B. A. Umesh v. Union of India & Ors. referred to
2022 Mohd. Arif @ Ashfaq v. State (nct of Delhi) referred to
2022 Veerendra v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2021 Bhagchandra v. State of Madhya Pradesh referred to
2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors referred to
2020 Shatrughna Baban Meshram v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2019 Accused 'x' v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2018 M. A. Antony @ Antappan v. State of Kerala referred to
2018 Rajendra Pralhadrao Wasnik v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2018 Babasaheb Maruti Kamble v. State of Maharashtra referred to
2018 Ambadas Laxman Shinde and Ors. v. The State of Maharashtra referred to
2017 Justice K S Puttaswamy (retd.), and Anr. v. Union of India and Ors. referred to
2017 Vikram Singh @ Vicky Walia and Anr. v. State of Punjab and Anr. referred to
2016 B.A. Umesh v. Registrar General, High Court of Karnataka referred to
2016 Subramanian Swamy v. Union of India, Ministry of Law & Ors. referred to

Of those, 1 relied on · 2 followed · 17 referred to

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