{"id":622,"date":"2025-09-24T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/?p=622"},"modified":"2025-09-24T08:39:38","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T08:39:38","slug":"supreme-court-order-rejecting-review-not-appealable-only-original-decree-order-can-be-challenged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/supreme-court-order-rejecting-review-not-appealable-only-original-decree-order-can-be-challenged\/","title":{"rendered":"SUPREME COURT: ORDER REJECTING REVIEW NOT APPEALABLE \u2013 ONLY ORIGINAL DECREE\/ORDER CAN BE CHALLENGED"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SUPREME COURT: ORDER REJECTING REVIEW NOT APPEALABLE \u2013 ONLY ORIGINAL DECREE\/ORDER CAN BE CHALLENGED<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>New Delhi, [Date]<\/strong> \u2013 A Bench of Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice K.V. Viswanathan of the Hon\u2019ble Supreme Court has clarified a vital point of appellate procedure in <em>Sateesh V.K. v. The Federal Bank Ltd.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two Special Leave Petitions (SLPs) were before the Court:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>One SLP challenged the rejection of a review petition filed before the High Court.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The second SLP was directed against the original High Court order, which had earlier been challenged but was unconditionally withdrawn without liberty to re-file.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p>The judgment authored by Justice Dipankar Datta dismissed both SLPs:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The first SLP was held not maintainable since an order rejecting a review is not independently appealable. Such rejection merely affirms the original decree\/order, without any merger or modification.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The second SLP was held barred because it was re-filed after the petitioner had earlier withdrawn an SLP against the same High Court order without obtaining leave to re-file.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key Legal Principles Reaffirmed<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>No Appeal Against Review Rejection: Only the original decree or order can be appealed; a review rejection cannot be challenged independently.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Doctrine of Merger Inapplicable: Rejection of review does not merge with or alter the original order.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Procedural Discipline: Once an SLP is withdrawn unconditionally, a fresh SLP against the same order is not maintainable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on the significance of this ruling, Hon\u2019ble Dr. Anthony Raju, Advocate, Supreme Court of India and Chairman, All India Council of Human Rights, Liberties &amp; Social Justice (AICHLS), said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cThis is a landmark ruling that will serve as a guiding light for both litigants and practitioners. The Court has underscored that remedies must be pursued with precision. A rejected review is only a reaffirmation of the original order, and the law does not permit multiplying proceedings through fresh challenges. Procedural caution and strategic legal foresight are critical to safeguarding justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contact for Assistance &amp; Guidance<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Legal Help Line: +91 8588872001<br>Email: <a>office@humanrightscouncil.in<\/a><br>Website: <a>www.humanrightscouncil.in<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SUPREME COURT: ORDER REJECTING REVIEW NOT APPEALABLE \u2013 ONLY ORIGINAL DECREE\/ORDER CAN BE CHALLENGED New&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_siteseo_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[30,12,11,13,21],"class_list":["post-622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-supreme-court","tag-aft-judgment-on-disability-pension","tag-dr-anthony-raju-advocate-supreme-court","tag-human-rights-awards","tag-top-criminal-advocate","tag-top-pocso-expert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/622\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalandlegalassociates.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}