RESPONDENT: THE REGISTRAR GENERAL, SUPREME COURT OF INDIA. DATE OF JUDGMENT05/12/1995 VERMA, JAGDISH SARAN (J) VERMA, JAGDISH SARAN (J) RAMASWAMY, K. MANOHAR SUJATA V. (J) CITATION: 1996 SCC (3) 114 JT 1995 (9) 109 1995 SCALE (6)742 ACT: HEADNOTE: JUDGMENT: JUDGMENT J.S. VERMA, J. : This writ petition is a sequel of Civil Appeal Nos. 47084712 of 1989, M/s. Khoday Distilleries Limited & Anr. vs. State of Karnataka & Ors., and the connected matters which were decided on 19.10.1994. That judgment is reported in 1995 (1) SCC 574. After that decision, Review Petition Nos. 507511 of 1995 were filed. The order dated 25.4.1995 made in those review petitions is as under : "One of the grounds taken for the prayer made to hear oral arguments before deciding the review petitions is that there was no opportunity to supplement the written submissions filed before the Bench of three Judges and that the same could not be supplemented before the Constitution Bench. Accordingly, we permit the filing of supplementary written submissions, if any, by the parties mentioning therein and emphasizing the additional submissions, if any on which reliance is sought to be placed. The supplementary written submissions, if any, be filed by the parties within four weeks. The prayer made for hearing oral arguments on the review petitions would then be considered. The matters be listed in Chambers thereafter." After the supplementary written submissions had been filed by the parties, the review petitions were rejected by order dated 8.8.1995 as under : "We have perused the grounds on which a review of the order is sought. We had by our order dated 25th April, 1995 permitted the filing of supplementary written submissions by the parties and had stated that they should clearly emphasis the additional submissions, if any, on which reliance is sought to be placed. We had also stated that the prayer for hearing oral arguments would then be considered. Pursuant to the said order the written submissions have been filed and we have perused the same. Having perused the same we find that the submissions made therein have all been answered in the judgment sought to be reviewed. We have not noticed any submission on which we would like to hear oral arguments by counsel. Since we do not find any merit in the additional supplementary submissions filed in these proceedings we do not entertain the Review Petitions and reject them." The present writ petition under Article 32 has been filed by the petitioners after the rejection of their review petitions as above. The submissions of Shri G. Ramaswamy, learned counsel for the petitions are two : (1) The above civil appeals were listed before the Constitution Bench only for directions and were not heard on merits before they were decided on merits; and (2) The judgment rendered in the civil appeals reported in Khoday Distilleries Ltd. and Others vs. State of Karnataka and Others, 1995 (1) SCC 574, is invalid on the ground of violation of principles of natural justice. Reliance is placed on the decision in A.R. Antulay vs. R.S. Nayak & Anr., 1988 (Suppl.1) SCR 1, in support of these submissions. In substance, the argument of learned counsel for the petitioners is that the civil appeals having been decided on merits without being heard on merits, the judgment rendered therein is invalid for violation of principles of natural justice. In our opinion, there is no merit in this submission. The foundation for the argument advanced in support of the writ petition does not exist. The abovequoted orders dated 25.4.1995 and 8.8.1995 clearly show that even after the decision of the civil appeals, the petitioners were permitted to file supplementary written submissions, if any, emphasizing the additional submissions, if any, on which reliance was sought to be placed on the merits; and the supplementary written submissions filed by the parties were also considered while deciding the review petitions. In the order rejecting the review petitions, it was clearly mentioned that all the submissions made by the parties had been answered in the judgment sought to be reviewed. The decision in