Supreme Court of India

Leela Rajagopal & Ors. v. Kamala Menon Cocharan & Ors.

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Reported as [2014] 7 S.C.R. 697

Bench Ranjan Gogoi and R.K. Agrawal JJ.

Decided 8 September 2014

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What the Court ordered

Before parting we would like to observe that the very fact that an appeal to this Court can be lodged only upon grant of special leave to appeal would indicate the highly circumscribed nature of the jurisdiction of this Court.

Judgment, page 12

Authorities it was built on

1958 H. Venkatachala Iyengar v. B. N. Thimmajamma & Others cited by 35
2005 Pentakota Satyanarayana and Ors. v. Pentakota Seetharatnam and Ors. cited by 7
1961 Rani Purnima Devi and Another v. Kumar Khagendra Narayan Dev and Another cited by 2

Where later benches applied it

2025 Gurdial Singh (dead) through Lr v. Jagir Kaur (dead) and Anr. Etc. relied on
2020 Kavita Kanwar v. Mrs. Pamela Mehta & Ors. relied on
2020 Dhanpat v. Sheo Ram (deceased) through Lrs. & Ors. relied on
2021 Murthy & Ors. v. C. Saradambal & Ors. referred to

Of those, 3 relied on · 1 referred to

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