Recall of dismissed SLP is confined to narrow exceptions; later insolvency developments and unproven fraud do not justify reopening.

A miscellaneous application filed after disposal of an SLP is maintainable only in exceptional post-disposal situations, such as correction of clerical errors or where an executory order has become impossible to implement; the SC treated attempts to reopen a non-speaking dismissal as beyond functus officio limits and not maintainable. Later insolvency developments, including an OTS and Section 12A withdrawal under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, could not be collaterally used to recall the SLP dismissal, particularly where withdrawal depends on the Committee of Creditors' commercial wisdom. Alleged suppression or fraud was also not specifically established, so no recall was warranted.

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Issues: (i) Whether a miscellaneous application seeking recall of a non-speaking order dismissing an SLP is maintainable after disposal of the SLP. (ii) Whether subsequent developments in insolvency proceedings, including an OTS and withdrawal under Section 12A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, can justify recall of the earlier dismissal. (iii) Whether alleged suppression or fraud was made out so as to reopen the disposed of SLP.

Issue (i): Whether a miscellaneous application seeking recall of a non-speaking order dismissing an SLP is maintainable after disposal of the SLP.

Analysis: A post-disposal miscellaneous application can be entertained only in narrow situations such as correction of clerical or arithmetical errors or where directions in an executory order have become impossible to implement because of later events. Once the SLP stands disposed of, the Court becomes functus officio except within those limited contours. A mere attempt to reopen a dismissed SLP does not satisfy the settled standard of maintainability.

Conclusion: The miscellaneous application was not maintainable and was against the applicant.

Issue (ii): Whether subsequent developments in insolvency proceedings, including an OTS and withdrawal under Section 12A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, can justify recall of the earlier dismissal.

Analysis: The later events relied upon arose in a separate statutory framework and beyond the civil revision from which the SLP had arisen. Such developments could not be examined collaterally in a miscellaneous application filed in the disposed of SLP. The Court also reiterated that withdrawal under Section 12A of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 depends on the commercial wisdom of the Committee of Creditors, which is not to be substituted by judicial assessment of competing offers. The applicant's attempt to compare the alleged superiority of its offer with the approved settlement was therefore outside the permissible scope of review.

Conclusion: The subsequent insolvency developments did not furnish a ground for recall and the issue was against the applicant.

Issue (iii): Whether alleged suppression or fraud was made out so as to reopen the disposed of SLP.

Analysis: Fraud may vitiate proceedings, but the exception must be specifically established. The order dismissing the SLP was non-speaking and did not rest on any representation shown to have been suppressed. The material relied upon at best disclosed a separate grievance arising from later or parallel proceedings and did not establish that the dismissal order itself had been procured by fraud.

Conclusion: Alleged suppression or fraud was not proved and no recall was warranted.

Final Conclusion: The Court declined to reopen the dismissed SLP or to enter into the merits of later insolvency proceedings, leaving the parties to pursue any available remedy before the competent forum.

Ratio Decidendi: A miscellaneous application filed after disposal of an SLP is maintainable only in exceptional post-disposal situations, and a non-speaking dismissal cannot be recalled on the basis of later events or unsubstantiated allegations of suppression, especially where the relief sought would require collateral review of a separate statutory process governed by commercial wisdom.

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