Supreme Court of India

Askari Hussain v. Dinesh Kumar

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Bench Dipankar Datta and Sheel Nagu JJ.
Decided 24 August 2026

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What the Court ordered

We hold that by not returning the reference with the answers to the question referred and, instead, by deciding the appeal itself, the third member did not commit such an 10 illegality that the situation warranted an interference in exercise of jurisdiction under Article 227 of the Constitution.

Judgment, page 9

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