Syrian Jacobite Christians of Kerala had to suffer injustice only because eminent lawyers who conducted their cases were unfamiliar of the true ramifications of the concept of res judicata, res inter alios and stare decisis. (Read the synopsis of the Review Petitions by Sri. Nedumpara)
Synopsis The Petitioners are constrained to file this review, sadly, only because this Honble court, the Petitioners beg to submit with all humility and with utmost respect, failed to record the core of their contention that the instant church in question, and for that matter not a single out of the 1064 churches of the Malankara Syrian Jacobite Church, was a party to the Samudayan case which has culminated in the judgement of the 5-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court, namely, AIR 1959 SC 31 and, therefore, the said judgement is not binding on the Petitioner church and others. Had...
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