LAW FOR ALL

The settled principle of law is that the actus curiae neminem gravabit - `act of the court shall not harm anybody'. In South Eastern Coal Fields Limited Vs State of M.P., (2003) 8 SCC 648, this Court held: "27. That no one shall suffer for an act of the court is not a rule confined to an erroneous act of the court; the act of the court embraces within its sweep all such acts as to which the court may form an opinion in any legal proceeding that