SC Dismisses Review Petition as Review Cannot Be Used as an Appeal in Disguise

A. S. Raghavendra Vs Bharti Airtel Limited (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court dismissed the review petition filed against its judgment dated 02.04.2024 in Civil Appeal No. 5187 of 2023, wherein it had earlier allowed the appeal filed by the respondent company. The Court reiterated the settled legal position that the scope of review jurisdiction is extremely limited and cannot be used as a mechanism for rehearing a case on merits. Referring to its decision in Sanjay Kumar Agarwal v. State Tax Officer, the Court emphasized that review is permissible only where there exists an error appar...