High Courts Follow Earliest Supreme Court Decision When Faced with Conflicting Rulings to Ensure Consistency and Precedent.

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....It is often encountered in High Courts that two or more mutually irreconcilable decisions of the Supreme Court are cited - the inviolable recourse is to apply the earliest view as the succeeding ones would fall in the category of per incuriam - HC....