Supreme Court of India

Municipal Committee, Hoshiarpur v. Punjab State Electricity Board and Ors.

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Bench P. Sathasivam and Dr. B.S. Chauhan JJ.

Decided 19 October 2010

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Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 - ss. 100 and 103 - Second appeal - Exercise of powers under ss.100 and 103 - Conditions precedent - Held: second appeal cannot be decided merely on equitable grounds - The existence of a substantial question of law is a condition precedent for entertaining the second appeal, and on failure to do so, the judgment cannot be maintained - However, there is no prohibition on entertaining a second appeal even on a question of fact provided the court is satisfied that the findings of fact recorded by the courts below stood vitiated by non consideration of relevant…

Authorities it was built on

2008 Baboolal Sharda & Anr. v. Smt. Savitribai & Ors. cited by 29
1991 Jagdish Singh v. Natthu Singh cited by 18
2006 Mst. Sugani v. Rameshwar Das and Anr. cited by 3
1978 Jadu Gopal Chakravarty (dead) After Him His Legal Representatives v. Pannalal Bhowmick and Ors. cited by 2
2009 Bhag Singh v. Jaskirat Singh & Ors. cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2025 U. Sudheera & Others v. C. Yashoda & Others relied on
2023 Hemavathi and Ors. v. V. Hombegowda and Anr. relied on
2012 Hardeep Kaur v. Malkiat Kaur relied on
2026 Tharammel Peethambaran v. T. Ushakrishnan referred to
2022 Azgar Barid (d) by Lrs. v. Mazambi @ Pyaremabi and Others referred to
2021 K. N. Nagarajappa & Ors. v. H. Narasimha Reddy referred to
2020 State of U.P. v. Sudhir Kumar Singh and Ors. referred to
2011 Umerkhan v. Bismillabi @ Babulal Shaikh & Ors. referred to
2025 Vipin Kumar v. Jaydeep & Others mentioned
2021 Narayan Sitaramji Badwaik (dead) through Lrs v. Bisaram and Others mentioned

Of those, 3 relied on · 5 referred to · 2 mentioned

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