ORDER:— This is an application for review of a decision of this Court on a writ application directed against the decision of the Payment of Wages Authority, and the decision which is sought to be reviewed followed an earlier decision in Thillai Natarajan v. Fernandes, Special Civil Appln. No. 950 of 1956 which was decided on 3-7-1956 (Bom). It is hardly necessary to state that the powers of review enjoyed by this Court are very limited powers and we have had occasions to point out that when a decision is challenged on the ground that there is an error apparent on the face of the record, the error contemplated is an error so manifest, so clear, that no Court would permit such an error to remain on the record. The error is not an error which could be demonstrated by a process of ratiocination, nor would it be correct to say that when two views on a question of law are possible and the Court has taken one view, the fact that the other view is a more acceptable view would render the first view an error apparent on the face of the record. It is with these reservations and limitations that we must approach the point of view put forward before me by Mr. Singhvi.

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