Special Leave Petitions

  • Recently, the Supreme Court (SC) highlighted that Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) in criminal cases often lacked crucial information including number of bails asked, complete chargesheet and number of witnesses examined.
  • The Special Leave Petitions provides the aggrieved party a special permission to be heard in SC as an appeal against any judgment or order given by any court or tribunal in Indian territory (except military tribunal and court martial).
  • It has been provided as a "residual power" to the SC and can be exercised only in cases when any substantial question of law is involved, or gross injustice has been done.
  • Article 136 ....
Do You Want to Read More?
Subscribe Now
To get access to detailed content

Already a Member? Login here

Take Annual Subscription and get the following Advantage
The annual members of the Civil Services Chronicle can read the monthly content of the magazine as well as the Chronicle magazine archives.
Readers can study all the material since 2018 of the Civil Services Chronicle monthly issue in the form of Chronicle magazine archives.
Be an Annual Subscriber

News Snippets