{"id":22384,"date":"2024-04-11T07:25:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T01:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=22384"},"modified":"2025-04-06T19:21:02","modified_gmt":"2025-04-06T13:51:02","slug":"curative-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/curative-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"Curative Petition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Curative Petition:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is the <strong>final and last option<\/strong> for the people to <strong>acquire justice<\/strong> as mentioned and promised by the Constitution of India.<\/li>\n<li>It is a way to <strong>ask the court to review<\/strong> and revise their <strong>own decision,<\/strong> and it is filed after a review petition is dismissed or used.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> It is meant to ensure there is <strong>no miscarriage of justice<\/strong> and to prevent abuse of process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Background<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of curative petition originated from the case of <strong>Rupa Ashok Hurra Vs. Ashok Hurra and another case (2002)<\/strong> where the following question arose before the court of law: &#8216;whether an aggrieved person is entitled to any relief against the final judgment\/order of the Supreme Court, after the dismissal of a review petition?&#8217;.<\/li>\n<li>In this case, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court unanimously held that in order to rectify gross miscarriage of justice, the court will allow the curative petition filed by the victim.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Constitutional Background<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>Article 137<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution broadly supports the idea of a curative petition.<\/li>\n<li>It states that the &#8220;Supreme Court has the power to review any judgment pronounced (or order made) by it if the matter concerns the laws and rules made under <strong>Article 145&#8243;.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>These petitions can be entertained if the petitioner establishes there <strong>was a violation of the principles of natural justice<\/strong>, and that he was not heard by the court before passing an order.<\/li>\n<li>It will also be admitted where a judge failed to disclose facts that raise the apprehension of bias.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Hearing of Curative petitions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A curative petition must first be circulated to a bench of <strong>the three senior-most judges and the judges<\/strong> who passed the concerned judgment, if available.<\/li>\n<li>Only when a majority of the judges conclude that the matter needs hearing should it be listed, as far as possible, before the same bench.<\/li>\n<li>A curative petition is usually <strong>decided by judges in chamber,<\/strong> unless a specific request for an open-court hearing is allowed.<\/li>\n<li>It shall be open to the Bench at any stage of consideration of the curative petition to ask a senior counsel to assist it as amicus curiae.<\/li>\n<li>In the event of the bench holding at any stage that the petition is without any merit and vexatious, it may impose exemplary costs on the petitioner.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a writ?<\/h3>\n<p>It is a formal, legal document that orders a person or entity to perform or to cease performing a specific action or deed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-law\/allowing-curative-plea-how-supreme-court-pushes-the-envelope-9263351\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Allowing curative plea, how Supreme Court pushes the envelope<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Curative Petition is the final and last option for the people to acquire justice as mentioned and promised by the Constitution of India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":22385,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-22384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22384\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}