In Brief
In this 2017 writ petition, the Supreme Court considered whether to grant interim relief where similar applications were pending in companion writ petitions. The Court held that applications with overlapping issues across multiple proceedings should be heard together to avoid multiplicity of hearings on the same subject matter. The Court deferred the hearing and directed that interim relief applications from this petition and related writ petitions be listed together, with the matter to be reconsidered on 27 June 2017, permitting the Union of India to file a counter affidavit in response.
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