The Supreme Court of India, in a significant ruling on civil procedure, has held that a High Court, while hearing a second appeal, cannot frame and decide a new substantial question of law that was never raised in the pleadings or evidence before the lower courts. Setting aside a Kerala High Court judgment that had
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