Dhan Singh Patel v. State of Chhattisgarh
Case brief
What is this about?
Chhattisgarh High Court at Bilaspur, REVP No.58 of 2025, order dated 19/03/2025 by Smt. Justice Rajani Dubey. Keywords: maintainability of review petition; extremely limited scope of review; error apparent on face of record; re-appraisal impermissible; writ appeal WA No.357/2024 dismissed by Division Bench on 20.06.2024; writ appeal WA No.654/2024 withdrawn on 14.10.2024 without liberty; original writ WPS No.3883/2013 allowed on 22.11.2023; Supreme Court precedents relied on: Devaraju Pillai v. Sellayya Pillai (1987) 1 SCC 61; Meera Bhanja v. Nirmala Kumari Choudhury (1995) 1 SCC 170; Avijit Tea Co. v. Terai Tea Co. (1996) 10 SCC 174; Lily Thomas v. Union of India AIR 2000 SC 1650; Akhilesh Yavad v. Vishwanath Chaturvedi (2013) 2 SCC 1; Sasi v. Aravindakshan Nair (2017) 4 SCC 692. Outcome: review petition dismissed as not maintainable.
What did the court decide?
The scope of review jurisdiction is extremely limited; only an error apparent on the face of the record can be corrected, and re-appraisal/re-appreciation would amount to impermissible exercise of appellate jurisdiction.