ORAL JUDGMENT

(PER: THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE B.M.SHYAM PRASAD)

The appellants have filed this intra Court appeal calling in question the writ Court’s order dated 09.12.2021 in W.P. No.100700/2021 essentially contending that directions could not have been issued without hearing them inasmuch as they are affected by it. Sri. G.K. Hiregoudar, the learned Principal Government Advocate who is called upon to accept notice for the respondents, is heard in the light of the grievance and the decision of the Apex Court in Shideo Singh and others vs. State of Punjab and others 1 The Supreme Court in this decision has held that there is nothing in Article 226 of the Constitution to preclude a High Court from exercising the power of review which inheres in every Court of plenary jurisdiction to prevent miscarriage of justice or to correct grave and palpable errors committed by it². In the light of the appellants’ grievance and

1 AIR 1963 SC 1909

2 This proposition is also reiterated in one of the recent decisions in

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and another vs. Pratibha

Industries Limited and others, reported in [2019] 3 SCC 203 the exposition as aforesaid, the writ appeal and the pendin