"Exercise of suo motu powers under Article 227 of the Constitution after 18 years, for no subject matter, requires to be quashed" Gujarat High Court

In a LETTERS PATENT APPEAL No. 475 of 2001 against MALIA HATINA GRAM PANCHAYAT & others in SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION No. 870 of 1991, before the Hon Gujarat High Court, the division bench of Hon Justice V.M. Sahai and Hon Justice K.S. Jhaveri while quashing the observations made by the Learned Single Judge from the impugned judgment have observed that " it would not be proper for this Court to exercise the suo-motu powers after almost 18 years, in respect of a judgment which was not the subject matter of the writ petition."