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Vishu Vardhan @ Vishnu Pradhan v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 7 S.C.R. 1371
Bench Surya Kant, Dipankar Dutta and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 23 July 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that even if Vishnu had not applied for a review - as a logical corollary of the aforesaid discussions - the decision in Reddy Veerana (supra) too having been obtained by Reddy by playing fraud, has to be erased from the records being a nullity.

Judgment, page 76

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Issue for Consideration Issue arose whether the impugned order having merged with this Court’s order in Reddy Veerana’s case, as claimed by R, renders the present appeal which lays a collateral challenge to an order of this Court itself not maintainable; whether the present writ petition is not maintainable, as it seeks to challenge a judicial order which, by its very nature, can never be said to violate Fundamental Rights; whether the appellant can pursue a civil appeal against the impugned order as well as a petition for review of the decision of this Court in which the impugned order has

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