Summarize the following court judgment. Civil Appeal No. 2844 of 1979. Appeal by Special Leave from the Judgment and Order dated 17 8 1979 of the Allahabad High Court in Civil Revision No. 1273 of 1976. Pramod Swarup for the Appellant. N. K. Agarwal for the Respondent (Amicus Curiae). The Judgment of the Court was delivered by PATHAK	 J. This appeal by special leave and the four associated special leave petitions question the dismissal by the High Court of Allahabad of five revision petitions filed under Section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure	 on the ground that they are not maintainable. Although the five cases before us must be considered in the context of their individual facts	 it is desirable to appreciate the relevant jurisdictional structure of revisional power enjoyed by the High Court from time to time. In 1970	 the provisions of section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure	 read : "115. Revision : The High Court may call for the record of any case which has been decided by any court subordinate to such High Court	 and in which no appeal lies thereto	 and if such court subordinate appears : (a) to have exercised a jurisdiction not vested in it by law	 or (b) to have exercised a jurisdiction so vested	 or 35 (c) to have acted in the exercise of its jurisdiction illegally with material irregularity	 the High Court may make such order in the case as it deems fit. " A schematic analysis of the judicial hierarchy within a State indicates that the High Court	 as the apex court in the hierarchy	 has been entrusted	 not only with the supreme appellate power exercised within the State but also	 by virtue of section 115	 the power to remove	 in order to prevent a miscarriage of justice	 any jurisdictional error committed by a subordinate court in those cases where the error cannot be corrected by resort to its appellate jurisdiction. The two salient features of revisional jurisdiction under section 115 are	 on the one hand	 the closely limited grounds on which the court is permitted to interfere and on the other	 the wide expanse of discretion available to the court	 when it decides to interfere	 in making an appropriate order. The intent is that so serious an error as one of jurisdiction	 if committed by a subordinate court	 should not remain uncorrected	 and should be removed and the record healed of the infirmity by an order shaped to re instate the proceeding within the proper jurisdictional confines of the subordinate court. It is a power of superintendence	 and fittingly it has been conferred in terms enabling the High Court to exercise it	 not only when moved by an aggrieved person	 but also suo motu. While considering the nature and scope of the revisional jurisdiction	 it is necessary however	 to advert to prime circumstance that in civil cases the jurisdiction has been entrusted to the highest court of the State	 demonstrating that broadly the order under section 115 is to be regarded	 in the absence of anything else	 as a final order within the State judiciary. From its inception there was increasing resort to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under section 115. Over the years the volume of litigation reached an insupportable point in the pending docket of the Court. To alleviate the burden	 a pattern of decentralisation of revisional power was adopted and section 115 was amended by successive State amendments	 each attempting to close the gap left by its predecessor. In its meandering course from stage to stage	 this is how section 115 read : 1. From 7th April	 1970 : By virtue of section 3	 U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1970	 section 115 was amended and the result was that : (i) The High Court had exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 in a case arising out of an original suit of the value of Rs. 20	000 and above; and 36 (ii) The High Court and the District Court had jurisdiction under section 115 concurrently in other cases. From 20th September	 1972: section 6	 U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1972 amended section 115 further with effect from 20th September	 1972. Later	 section 115 was amended by section 2	 U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1973 in its application to Uttar Pradesh	 retrospectively with effect from 20th September	 1972. In consequence: (i) The High Court possessed exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 in cases arising out of original suits of the value of Rs. 20	000 and above	 including such suits instituted before 20th September	 1972: (ii) The District Court possessed exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 in any other case	 including a case arising out of an original suit instituted before 20th September	 1972. Provided that in respect of cases decided before 20th September	 1972 and also all cases arising out of original suits of any valuation	 decided by the District Court	 the High Court alone was competent to exercise revisional power under section 115. section 2(e)	 U.P. President 's Acts (Re enactment with Modifications) Act	 1974 repealed the U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1973	 and re enacted it with certain modifications which	 however	 for the purposes of the present case are immaterial. From 1st February	 1977: section 43	 Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act	 1976 was enacted by Parliament and amended section 115 with effect from 1st February	 1977 making substantial changes therein. Section 97(1) of the Amendment Act provided that any amendment made	 or provision inserted	 in the Code of Civil Procedure by a State Legislature before the 1st February	 1978 would stand repealed except insofar as such amendment or provision was consistent with the Code as amended by the said Amendment Act. As the Code now amended provided for revisional jurisdiction in the High Court alone	 the scheme embodied in section 115 by the successive U.P. Amendment Acts was plainly inconsistent with the Code as now amended	 and therefore stood repealed	 the position reverting to what it was under the original section 115 before its amendment by the U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1970. But section 97(2) provided that section 115 as now amended by the Amendment Act	 1976 would not apply to nor affect any proceeding for revision which had been admitted	 after 37 preliminary hearing	 before 1st February	 1977 and every such proceeding for revision would be disposed of as if section 43 had not come into force. The proviso was without prejudice to the generality of the provisions of section 6	 . In the result : (i) The High Court had exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 in a revision petition filed on and after that date	 irrespective of the valuation of the suit out of which the case arose : (ii) A revision petition under section 115 which had been admitted	 after preliminary hearing	 before 1st February	 1977 would continue to be governed by section 115 as it stood before that date. From 1st August	 1978: Finally section 3	 Code of Civil Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment)	 Act	 1978	 which was deemed to have come into force on 1st August	 1978	 amended section 115 again and restored the bifurcation of revisional jurisdiction between the High Court and the District Court. Accordingly now: (i) The High Court alone had jurisdiction under section 115 in cases arising out of original suits or other proceedings of the value of Rs. 20	000 and above	 including such suits or other proceedings instituted before 1st August	 1978; (ii) The District Court alone has jurisdiction under section 115 in any other case	 including a case arising out of an original suit or other proceedings instituted before 1st August	 1978; (iii) The High Court has jurisdiction under section 115 in respect of cases	 arising out of original suits or other proceedings of any valuation	 decided by the District Court. (iv) A revision proceeding pending immediately before 1st August	 1978 of the nature in which a District Court would exercise revisional power under section 115 as amended by the Amendment	 Act	 1978 if pending : (a) in the District Court	 would be decided by that court as if the Amendment Act of 1978 were in force at all material times ; (b) in the High Court	 would be decided by the High Court as if the Amendment Act of 1978 had not come into force. The submissions made by learned counsel before us cover a wide field	 but in the main	 two questions arise : (1) Whether the High Court possesses revisional jurisdiction under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure in respect of an order of the District Court under section 115 disposing of a revision petition ? 38 (2) Whether the High Court possesses revisional jurisdiction under section 115 against an order of the District Court under section 25	 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act disposing of a revision petition ? As regards the first question	 it will be noticed that a revisional power was formerly entrusted exclusively to the highest court in the state	 the High Court. The State amendments now divided it between the High Court and the District Court. The amendment effect by the U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1970 conferred exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 in the High Court in cases arising out of original suits of the value of Rs. 20	000/ and above	 and in other cases the revisional jurisdiction was concurrently shared between the High Court and the District Court. It was apparently supposed that the average litigant would prefer the less expensive and more convenient forum of the District Court. The measure	 it seems	 did not bring the relief expected	 and the State Legislature found it necessary	 by enacting the U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1972 to make a clear cut division of jurisdiction between the High Court and the District Court	 resulting in exclusive revisional jurisdiction to the High Court in cases arising out of original suits of the value of Rs. 20	000/ and above	 and exclusive jurisdiction under section 115 to the District Court in other cases. There was a sharp bifurcation of revisional jurisdiction	 and the High Court and District Court now enjoyed mutually exclusive revisional powers. A controversy arose whether a revisional order under section 115 made by the District Court was final or was itself amendable to the revisional power of the High Court under the same section. The point was considered by a full Bench of the High Court in Har Parasad Singh and others vs Ram Swarup and others and it was held that no such revision petition was maintainable before the High Court. Further State amendments were made to section 115 without materially disturbing the division of power. But a proviso added to section 115 by the U.P. Civil Laws (Amendment) Act	 1973	 followed by the U.P. President 's Acts (Re enactment with Modifications) Act	 1974 stated : "Provided that in respect of cases decided before the 20th day of September	 1972	 and also all cases arising out of original suits of any valuation decided by the District Court	 the High Court alone shall be competent to make an order under this section. " The proviso reopened the controversy whether a revision petition lay to the High Court against a revisional order passed by the Dis 39 trict Court	 and on a difference of opinion between two learned judges a third learned judge of the Allahabad High Court now held in Phool Wati and others vs Gur Sahai that a revision petition would lie. The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act	 1976	 however	 superseded the scheme of bifurcation of revisional jurisdiction with effect from 1st February	 1977 and	 with certain modification the position reverted to what it was under the original section 115. In other words	 the entire sphere of revisional jurisdiction was restored to the High Court	 no such power being now vested in the District Court. An exception was made where a revision petition under section 115 had been admitted	 after preliminary hearing	 before Ist February	 1977; it would continue to be governed by section 115 as it stood before that date. The situation lasted only briefly	 for on 1st August	 1978 the Code of Civil Procedure (Uttar Pradesh Amendment) Act	 1978 substantially restored the status quo ante. The controversy whether it is open to the High Court to exercise revisional power in respect of a revisional order under section 115 of the District Court presents little difficulty. The basis for determining that question flows from the principle incorporated in the bifurcation of the revisional jurisdiction. And legislative history comes to our aid. The consistent object behind the successive amendments was to divide the work load of revision petitions between the High Court and the District Court and decentralise that jurisdiction. That purpose was sought to be achieved by classifying all cases into two mutually exclusive categories depending on the valuation of the suit out of which they arose. In determining whether the Legislature intended a further revision petition to the High Court	 regard must be had to the principle that the construction given to a statute should be such as would advance the object of the legislation and suppress the mischief sought to be cured by it. It seems to us that to recognise a revisional power in the High Court over a revisional order passed by the District Judge would plainly defeat the object of the legislative scheme. The intent behind the bifurcation of jurisdiction to reduce the number of revision petitions filed in the High Court would be frustrated. The scheme would	 in large measure	 lose its meaning. If a revision petition is permitted to the High Court against the revisional order of the District Court arising out of a suit of a value less than Rs. 20	000/ 	 a fundamental contradiction would be allowed to invade and destroy the division of revisional power between the High Court and the District Court	 for 40 the High Court would then enjoy jurisdictional power in respect of an order arising out of a suit of a valuation below Rs. 20	000/ . That was never intended at all. In Phoolwati (supra)	 considerable importance was attached to the proviso introduced in section 115 by the U.P. Civil Laws Amendment Act	 1973. The proviso declared that "in respect of. all cases arising out of original suits of any valuation decided by the District Court	 the High Court alone shall be competent to make an order under this section". What it said was that no matter what the valuation of the original suit	 be it Rs. 20	000/ and above or below Rs. 20	000/ 	 if a case arising out of such suit was decided by the District Court	 the case would be amenable to the revisional power of the High Court. We are already familiar with the category of cases where the High Court wields revisional jurisdiction over cases arising out of original suits of a value of Rs. 20	000/ or more. That is the category already covered by the substantive provision in section 115. The other category covered by the proviso would include those instances	 for example where an original suit although of a value making it triable by a court subordinate is transferred to the District Court for trial. Orders passed by the District Court in such a suit could constitute a case decided by it and amenable to the revisional power of the High Court. What must be noted is that the test incorporated in the proviso is the fact that the case has been decided by the District Court. The valuation of the suit is irrelevant. But the proviso cannot be construed to include the case of a revisional order passed by the District Court for that would be in direct conflict with the fundamental structure itself of section 115 evidencing that a mutually exclusive jurisdiction has been assigned to the High Court and the District Court within its terms. A proviso cannot be permitted by construction to defeat the basic intent expressed in the substantive provision. Har Prasad Singh (supra) and Phoolwati (supra) were considered by a Full Bench of the High Court in M/s Jupiter Fund (Pvt.) Ltd. vs Dwarka Diesh Dayal and others and in our judgment the High Court rightly laid down there that the phrase "case arising out of an original suit" occurring in section 115 does not cover orders passed in revision. We are of opinion on the first question that the High Court is not vested with revisional jurisdiction under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure over a revisional order made by the District Court under that section. 41 We shall now advert to the second question	 whether a revisional order of the District Court under section 25	 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act	 is amenable to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure. Section 25 originally provided: "25. The High Court	 for the purpose of satisfying itself that a decree or order made in any case decided by a Court of Small Causes was according to law	 may call for the case and pass such order with respect thereto as it thinks fit. " Section 25 was amended in its application to the State of Uttar Pradesh from time to time. The first amendment substituted the District Judge for the High Court	 so that the District Judge became the repository of revisional power instead of the High Court. A further amendment	 made in 1972	 added a proviso	 which declared that in relation to any case decided by a District Judge or Additional District Judge exercising the jurisdiction of a Judge of Small Causes the power of revision under section 25 would vest in the High Court. The question before us arises in those cases only where the District Judge has exercised revisional power under section 25. Is an order so made open to revision by the High Court under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure ? An examination of the several provisions of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act indicates that it is a self sufficient code so far as the present enquiry is concerned. For the purpose of correcting decrees or orders made by a Court of Small Causes the Act provides for an appeal and a revision in cases falling under section 24 and section 25 respectively. Cases in which the District Judge and the High Court respectively exercise revisional power	 revisional powers are specifically mentioned. A complete set of superior remedies has been incorporated in the Act. Moreover	 section 27 of the Act provides: "27. Finality of decrees and orders. Save as provided by this Act	 a decree or order made under the foregoing provisions of this Act by a Court of Small Causes shall be final. " The Legislature clearly intended that a decree or order made by a Court of Small Causes should be final subject only to correction by the remedies provided under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. It is a point for consideration that had section 25	 in its application to the State of Uttar Pradesh continued in its original form the High Court would have exercised the revisional power under section 25	 and no question could have arisen of invoking the revisional power of the High Court under section 115 of the Code. All the indications point to the conclusion that a case falling within the 42 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act was never intended to be subject to the remedies provided by the Code of Civil Procedure. By way of abundant caution section 7 of the Code made express provision barring the application of sections 96 to 112 and 115 of the Code to courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. Section 7 of the Code merely embodies the general principle against resort to remedies outside the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. Although the court of the District Judge is not a court constituted under the Act the general principle continues to take effect. No change in the principle was brought about merely because revisional power under section 25	 before the proviso was added	 was now entrusted to the District Judge. It must be remembered that the legislative intention behind the amendment was to relieve the High Court of the burden of exercising revisional jurisdiction in respect of cases decided under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. We are of firm opinion that the central principle continues to hold	 notwithstanding the amendment effected in section 25	 that the hierarchy of remedies enacted in the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act represents a complete and final order of remedies	 and it is not possible to proceed outside the Act to avail of a superior remedy provided by another statute. These considerations were apparently not present before the High Court of Allahabad when it held in Bimla Rani Kohli vs M/s. Bandu Motor Finance (P) Ltd. that a revisional order of the District Judge under section 25	 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act could be revised by the High Court under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure. In our opinion	 the view taken by the High Court is not correct. Accordingly	 we hold that an order passed under section 25	 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act by a District Court is not amenable to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure. In Civil Appeal No. 2844 of 1979	 S.L.P. No. 9104 of 1979	 S.L.P. No. 9142 of 1979 and S.L.P. No. 9752 of 1979	 the High Court has rejected revision petitions filed under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure	 against the revisional orders of the District Court under section 25	 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. On the opinion reached by us that a revision petition under section 115 is not maintainable against a revisional order under section 25	 the appeal and the associated special leave petitions must be dismissed. 43 S.L.P. No. 9031 of 1979 arises out of an application for an ad interim injunction made in a pending suit. Since then the suit has been dismissed	 and an appeal against the decree is pending. As the suit itself has been disposed of	 all proceedings for grant of interim relief must be regarded as having lapsed. The Special Leave Petition has become infructuous and must be dismissed accordingly. It has been urged by the appellant in Vishesh Kumar vs Shanti Prasad (Civil Appeal No. 2844 of 1979) that in case this Court is of the opinion that a revision petition under section 115	 Code of Civil Procedure	 is not maintainable	 the case should be remitted to the High Court for consideration as a petition under Article 227 of the Constitution. We are unable to accept that prayer. A revision petition under section 115 is a separate and distinct proceeding from a petition under Article 227 of the Constitution	 and one cannot be identified with the other. In the result	 the appeal and the special leave petitions are dismissed. There will be no order as to cost. P.B.R. Appeal and Petitions dismissed.

Section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure confers on the High Court of a State power to remove any jurisdictional error committed by a subordinate court in cases where the error cannot be corrected by resort to its appellate jurisdiction. From its inception there was increasing resort to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under section 115. To alleviate the burden of arrears and reduce the volume of litigation which had reached an insupportable point	 section 115 was amended by successive state amendments	 each amendment attempting to close the gap left by its predecessor. The amendments conferred revisional jurisdiction both on the High Court and the District Court each enjoying mutually exclusive revisional powers. The consistent object behind the successive amendments was to divide the work load of revision petitions between the High Court and the District Court and decentralise the jurisdiction. A proviso was added to section 115 by the U.P. Civil Laws Amendment Act	 1973 declaring that "in respect of cases. .arising out of original suits of any valuation decided by the District Court the High Court alone shall be competent to make an order under this section. " The Code of Civil Procedure (Amendment) Act	 1976 superseded the scheme of bifurcation of revisional jurisdiction with effect from 1st February 1977. With certain modifications the position reverted to what it was under the original section 115. An exception was made where a revision petition under section 115 had been admitted after preliminary hearing before 1st February 1977; it would continue to be governed by section 115 as it stood before that date. But the Code of Civil Procedure (U.P. Amendment) Act 1978 substantially restored the status quo ante. Section 25 of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act was amended from time to time in its application to the State of U.P. The first amendment substituted the District Judge for the High Court. A further amendment made in 1972 added a proviso which declared that in relation to any case decided by a District Judge or Additional District Judge exercising jurisdiction of a Judge of Small Causes Court the power of revision under section 25 would vest in the High Court. 33 The two questions that fell for consideration were : (i) whether the High Court possesses the revisional jurisdiction under section 115 of the Code of Civil Procedure in respect of an order of the District Court under s.115 disposing of a revision petition and (ii) whether the High Court possesses revisional jurisdiction under section 115 against an order of District Court under section 25 Provincial Small Cause Courts Act disposing of a revision petition	 ^ HELD : The High Court is not vested with revisional jurisdiction under section 115 Code of Civil Procedure over the revisional order made by the District Court under that section. [40 H] (a) To recognise a revisional power in the High Court over the revisional order passed by the District Court would plainly defeat the object of the legislative scheme. The intent behind the bifurcation of jurisdiction to reduce the number of revision petitions filed in the High Court would be frustrated. The scheme would lose its meaning. If a revision petition is permitted to the High Court against the revisional order of the District Court arising out of a suit of a value less than Rs. 20	000 a fundamental contradiction would be allowed to invade and destroy the division of revisional power between the High Court and the District Court	 for the High Court would then enjoy jurisdictional power in respect of an order arising out of a suit of a valuation of below Rs. 20	000/ [39 G H] (b) What the proviso introduced in section 115 by the Civil Laws Amendment Act	 1973	 stated was that no matter what the valuation of the original suit	 if a case arising out of such suit was decided by the District Court	 the case would be amenable to the revisional power of the High Court. What is covered by the substantive provision are cases arising out of original suits of a value of Rs. 20	000/ or more. The other category covered by the proviso would include those instances where an original suit	 although of a value making it triable by a court subordinate	 is transferred to the District Court for trial. Orders passed by the District Court in such a suit could constitute a case decided by it and amenable to the revisional power of the High Court. The test incorporated in the proviso is the fact that the case has been decided by the District Court. The valuation of the suit is irrelevant. The proviso cannot be construed to include the case of a revisional order passed by the District Court for that would be in direct conflict with the fundamental structure itself of section 115. A proviso cannot be permitted by construction to defeat the basic intent expressed in the substantive provision. [40 C F] M/s. Jupiter Fund (Pvt.) Ltd. vs Dwarka Diesh Dayal and others approved. (a) An order passed under section 25 of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act by a District Court is not amenable to the revisional jurisdiction of the High Court under section 115 of the C.P.C. [42 F] (b) An examination of the several provisions of the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act indicates that it is a self sufficient code so far as the present enquiry is concerned. The Legislature clearly intended that a decree or order made by a Court of Small Causes should be final subject only to correction by the remedies provided under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. All the indications contained in the Act point to the conclusion that a case falling 34 within the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act was never intended to be subject to the remedies provided by the Code of Civil Procedure. By way of abundant caution	 section 7 of the Code made express provision barring the application of sections 96 to 112 and 115 of the Code to courts constituted under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. Section 7 of the Code merely embodies the general principle against resort to remedies outside the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. Although the court of the District Judge is not a court constituted under the Act the general principle continues to take effects No change in the principle was brought about merely because revisional power under section 25	 before the proviso was added	 was now entrusted to the District Judge. The legislative intention behind the amendment was to relieve the High Court of the burden of exercising revisional jurisdiction in respect of cases decided under the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act. Therefore the central principle continues to hold	 notwithstanding the amendment effected in section 25	 that the hierarchy of remedies enacted in the Provincial Small Cause Courts Act represents a complete and final order of remedies	 and it is not possible to proceed outside the Act to avail of a superior remedy provided by another statute. [4] E 42 A D] Bimla Rani Kohli vs M/s. Bandu Motor Finance Pvt. Ltd. A.I.R. 1972 All. 342; over ruled.