a decree passed in appeal by any court sub-ordinate to the High Court if the High Court is satisfied that the case involves a substantial question of law. In order to re-assert the mandatory requirement of involvement of substantial question of law for a second appeal to be maintained under Section 100 of the Code, Section 101 of the Code provides that no second appeal shall lie “except on the ground mentioned in Section 100 of the Code”. Such being the legislative mandate, the superior courts have on several occasions laid down law as to what would constitute and what would not, a “substantial question of law” within the meaning of Section 100 of the Code while scrutinizing scope of the Section. By now, it is settled position of law that the High Court cannot interfere with the concurrent finding of fact unless the same is found to be perverse being based on no evidence or contrary to material available on record or that on the evidence on record no reasonable person could have come to that conclusion. Reference may be made in this regard to the Supreme Court judgments in the cases of Vidyadhar Manik Rao, (1999) 3 SCC 573; Sugani (mst.) v. Rameshwar Das and another, (2006) 11 SCC 87; Gurudev Kaur v. Kaki, (2007) 1 SCC 546; Prakash Kumar v. State of Gujarat (2004) 5 SCC 140; Thingarajan and ors. V. Venugopalaswamy B. Koil and others (2004) 5 SCC 762 and Narayanan Rajendran and another v. Lakshmi Sarojini and other.
