{"id":9627,"date":"2022-10-16T05:47:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T00:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9627"},"modified":"2025-03-29T14:29:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T08:59:18","slug":"split-verdict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/split-verdict\/","title":{"rendered":"Split verdict"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About\u00a0Split verdict:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>A split verdict is passed when the Bench cannot decide one way or the other in a case, either by an unanimous decision or by a majority verdict.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Split verdicts can only happen when the Bench has an even number of judges.<\/strong>\u00a0This is why judges usually sit in Benches of odd numbers (three, five, seven, etc.) for important cases, even though two-judge Benches \u2014 known as Division Benches \u2014 are not uncommon.<\/li>\n<li>In case of a split verdict, the\u00a0<strong>case is heard by a larger Bench.\u00a0<\/strong>The larger Bench to which a split verdict goes\u00a0<strong>can be a three-judge Bench of the High Court, or an appeal can be preferred before the Supreme Court.\u00a0<\/strong>In the case of the hijab verdict, the CJI, who is the \u2018master of the roster\u2019, will constitute a new, larger Bench to hear the matter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Earlier cases with a split verdict<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A two-judge Bench of the Delhi High Court delivered a split verdict in petitions challenging the exception provided to marital rape in the Indian Penal Code (IPC).<\/li>\n<li>Madras High Court Division Bench order on the challenge to the disqualification of AIADMK MLAs owing allegiance to TTV Dinakaran (2018).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/everyday-explainers\/what-is-a-split-verdict-and-what-happens-next-in-such-cases-8207071\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Indian Express<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A split verdict is passed when the Bench cannot decide one way or the other in a case.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9627","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\/9627","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=9627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}