Review Maintainable After Non-Speaking SLP Dismissal as Doctrine of Merger Not Attracted: SC

Khoday Distilleries Ltd. Vs Mahadeshwara Sahakara Sakkare Karkhane Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court considered whether a review petition is maintainable before a High Court when a special leave petition (SLP) against the same judgment has already been dismissed by the Supreme Court. The dispute arose from a money suit dismissed by the trial court as time-barred, later decreed by the High Court with interest. The appellant’s SLP against the High Court’s decree was dismissed in limine by a non-speaking order. Thereafter, the appellant filed a review petition before the High Co...