Radhey Shyam & Anr vs Chhabi Nath & Ors

The Supreme Court referred the matter to a larger bench to reconsider the legal proposition established in Surya Dev Rai vs. Ram Chander Rai regarding the maintainability of writ petitions under Article 226 against orders of civil courts. The Court clarified that under Article 227, the High Court's power is limited to superintendence and does not extend to correcting judicial orders of civil courts, which can only be reviewed in exceptional cases of manifest miscarriage of justice. The Court ultimately disagreed with the Surya Dev Rai ruling, stating it contradicted the established ratio in Mirajkar, which holds that certiorari does not lie to quash judgments of inferior civil courts.