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NEW DELHI, AUG 21: The Supreme Court has severely criticised the tendency among litigants to keep approaching the highest Court endlessly by filing applications seeking review or clarification of judgements passed in their cases.
"It has become an almost everyday experience that review applications are filed mechanically as a matter of routine and the grounds for review are a mere reproduction of the grounds of Special leave (Appeal)," the Court said.
A Bench comprising Justice S B Majmudar and Justice M Jagannadha Rao made these observations while dealing with an application which was filed even after the dismissal of the review petitions.
The Bench said "We seriously deprecate this practice. If parties file review petitions indiscriminately, the time of the Court is unnecessarily wasted… Greater care, seriousness and restraint is needed in filing review applications."
Justice Rao, writing the judgement for the Bench, agreed with Solicitor General Harish Salve that the Court should not permit hearing of an application for clarification’, modification’ or recall’ if the application was in substance one for review.
