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 ....
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