{"id":6619,"date":"2023-01-12T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T03:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6619"},"modified":"2025-03-27T15:57:55","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T10:27:55","slug":"what-is-a-curative-petition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-a-curative-petition\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a Curative Petition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>Why in News?:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The concept of curative petition <strong>originated from the case of 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;.<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>What is a Curative Petition?\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A curative petition, <strong>is the final and last option for the people to acquire justice<\/strong> as mentioned and promised by the Constitution of India.<\/li>\n<li>A curative petition may be <strong>filed after a review plea against the final conviction is dismissed.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: It is meant to ensure there is no miscarriage of justice, and to prevent abuse of process.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Criteria for admission:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The court ruled that a curative petition can be entertained if the petitioner establishes there was a <strong>violation of the principles of natural justice<\/strong>, and that he <strong>was not heard by the court before passing an order.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It will also be admitted where a <strong>judge failed to disclose facts<\/strong> that raise the apprehension of bias.<\/li>\n<li>The SC has held that <strong>curative petitions must be rare rather than regular<\/strong>, and be entertained with circumspection.<\/li>\n<li>A curative petition <strong>must be accompanied by certification by a senior advocate<\/strong>, pointing out substantial grounds for entertaining it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who hears Curative petitions?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>A curative petition must be <strong>first circulated to a bench of the three senior-most judges, and the judges who passed the concerned judgment<\/strong>, if available.<\/li>\n<li>Only when a majority of the judges conclude that the matter needs hearing should it be listed \u2014 as far as possible, before the same Bench.<\/li>\n<li>A curative petition is <strong>usually 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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is a Special Leave Petition?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A Special Leave Petition (SLP) is a type of petition filed with the Supreme Court of India seeking permission to appeal against a decision of a lower court or tribunal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/sports\/bhopal-gas-tragedy-cant-decide-curative-plea-for-additional-funds-as-lawsuit-sc-tells-centre-8376396\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bhopal gas tragedy: \u2018Dip into your own pocket\u2019 says Supreme Court on Centre\u2019s curative plea<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A curative petition is the final &#038; last option for the people to acquire justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6619","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\/6619","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=6619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6619\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}