Supreme Court of India

Hindustan Petroleum Corporation Ltd. v. Dilbahar Singh

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Reported as [2014] 14 S.C.R. 1379
Bench R. M. Lodha, Dipak Misra, Madan B. Lokur, Kurian Joseph and S. A. Bobde JJ.
Decided 27 August 2014

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that though the revisional'power under the Rent Act may be wider than Section 115 of the Code of Civil .. Procedure it cannot be equated even with the second· appellate power conferred on the civil court under the Code of Civil Procedure.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Jurisdiction - Revisional jurisdiction of High Court - As provided under Rent Control Acts of Haryana, Kera/a and Tamil Nadu - Ambit and scope of - Held: The scope of revisional jurisdiction provided under provisions of the Acts confines the power of the High Court to interfere with the finding of fact recorded by first appellate court/authority, only to the extent offinding out that the finding offact recorded by court below did not suffer from any error- It cannot interfere with finding of fact in order to take a different view exercising its power as a court of appeal - Haryana Urban

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