Authority: Supreme Court of India
Order Date: 13-08-2026
Case Overview
- Petitioners: LIC Housing Finance Limited & others; Respondents: Vivek V and another.
- The petition is Special Leave to Appeal (C) No.35085/2025 arising from the High Court of Kerala’s final judgment and order dated 12-08-2025 in WA No.904/2022.
- Multiple Interim Applications were filed: IA No.205723/2026 (admission), IA No.78124/2026 (permission to file additional documents), IA No.78081/2026 (permission to place additional facts and grounds).
- The Court also listed SLP (C) No.4653/2026 in the same hearing.
- Counsel for petitioners sought reinstatement of respondent No.1 as ordered by the impugned order.
- Attorney General for India, R. Venkataramani, raised the issue that the petitioners are an instrumentality of the State, digitally signed by Neha Gupta on 18-08-2026 (signature not verified), and referred to precedent SLP (C) No.15696/2016 dated 26-09-2016.
Final Outcome
- The Court issued notice to the respondents on the matter of reinstating respondent No.1 and directed that the issue of the petitioners’ digital signature be examined, linking it to SLP (C) No.15696/2016.
- In the separate SLP (C) No.4653/2026, the Court rejected the prayer filed by the petitioners.
- The orders were pronounced by Hon’ble Mr. Justice Aravind Kumar and Hon’ble Mr. Justice Vipul M. Pancholi.
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