New Delhi, Mar 9: A petition under Article 32 of the Constitution cannot be maintained to challenge a binding judgment of the apex court, the Supreme Court has said while dismissing a plea seeking to overrule a 2020 verdict delivered by a five-judge constitution bench pertaining to the land acquisition Act.
Article 32 of the Constitution deals with remedies for enforcement of rights and 32 (1) says that right to move the apex court by appropriate proceedings for enforcement of rights conferred by this part is guaranteed.
A bench headed by Chief Justice D Y Chandrachud was dealing with a plea seeking a direction to the Centre to reinterpret section 24 (2) of the Land Acquisition Act 2013.
It had also sought declaring that a March 2020 judgment delivered by a five-judge constitution bench and “verdicts passed therein no longer good law and accordingly over rule the same”.
