In Brief
The Supreme Court allowed review petitions challenging its July 2013 judgment in Christian Medical College Vellore v. Union of India. A five-judge bench found that the earlier judgment's majority had failed to consider binding precedents and that there had been no discussion among bench members before pronouncing judgment. The court recalled the previous judgment and directed the matters to be re-heard. The bench did not provide detailed reasons, consistent with established principles that detailed review reasoning could prejudice the substantive re-hearing.
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