SC to lay down SOP over rehearing of cases by HCs

THE Supreme Court on Friday said it will lay down guidelines and Standard Operating Procedure on the issue of high courts revoking orders dictated in open courts and later modifying them and rehearing the matter.

- SUCHITRA KALYAN MOHANTY

The apex court made the observation in a money laundering case against former Tamil Nadu IPS officer M S Jaffer Sait. A twojudge Madras HC bench, which had quashed the laundering case against the former DGP, later modified its direction and reheard the matter. The top court bench of Justice Abhay S Oka and Justice Augustine George Masih had earlier stayed the proceedings in the HC after the accused, Sait, had moved the SC