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According To Law

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

According to law, the High Court under the revisional jurisdiction is obliged to test the order of the Rent Controller on the touchstone of 'whether it is according to law' and for that limited purpose may enter into re-appraisal of evidence for the purpose of ascertaining whether the conclusion arrived at by the Rent Controller is wholly unreasonable or is one that no reasonable person acting with objectivity could have reached on the material available. Chandrika Prasad v. Umesh Kumar Verma, (2002) 1 SCC 531 (534): AIR 2002 SC 108.

According to law, judgment leading to a miscarriage of justice is not a judgment according to law, Shiv Sarup Gupta v. Dr. Mahesh Chand Gupta, (1999) 6 SCC 222.

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