Supreme Court of India

K. N. Nagarajappa & Ors. v. H. Narasimha Reddy

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Reported as [2021] 6 S.C.R. 109
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and S. Ravindra Bhat JJ.
Decided 9 September 2021

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What the Court ordered

In view of the foregoing discussion, it is held that there is no merit in the appeals which are accordingly dismissed.

Judgment, page 11

From the headnote

Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 – s.103 – High Courts ’ jurisdiction to appreciate factual issues u/s.103 CPC – He ld: High Courts are empowered to exercise limited factual re view u/s.103 CPC – The rule that sans a substantial question of law, the High Courts cannot interfere with findings of the lower Court or concurrent findings of fact, is subject to two impor tant caveats – The first is that, if the findings of fact are palp ably perverse or outrage the conscience of the Court; in other words, it f lies on the face of logic that given the facts on the record, interfe rence would be

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