Supreme Court: Its Requests to Lower Courts Are Binding Directions

The Supreme Court of India, through a Bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and K Vinod Chandran, recently clarified that any "request" it makes to any court or tribunal must be strictly construed as a binding direction, emphasizing that non-compliance will be viewed seriously, in the case of *Sona Bansal v. Vashisht Kumar Goyal & Ors*.

This pronouncement significantly strengthens the authority of the Supreme Court's pronouncements, even when framed as