Non-speaking revisional orders are unsustainable in law and require remand for fresh, reasoned adjudication.

A revisional or appellate order that disposes of questions of law without discussing the facts, the issues raised, or independent reasons is a non-speaking order and reflects non-application of mind. Such an order is unsustainable in law and must be set aside. The matter is to be remanded for fresh hearing and for a reasoned decision in accordance with law.

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Issues: Whether the High Court's cryptic revisional order, which dismissed the matter without discussing the facts or the questions of law raised, could be sustained and whether the matter required remand for fresh consideration.

Analysis: The revisional court had dismissed the case in a few lines without dealing with the questions of law or recording independent reasons. Such disposal was held to suffer from non-application of mind and to be unsustainable in law. Following the same principle applied in the connected line of cases, the proper course was to set aside the order and require the High Court to hear the matter afresh and decide it by a reasoned order.

Conclusion: The cryptic High Court order was unsustainable and the matter was remanded to the High Court for hearing de novo and for passing a reasoned order in accordance with law.

Ratio Decidendi: A revisional or appellate order that disposes of questions of law without reasons or discussion is a non-speaking order unsustainable in law and must be set aside with remand for fresh adjudication.

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