Apex Court Overrules Its Own Landmark Asian Resurfacing Judgment

After almost six years, the Supreme Court overruled its landmark judgment in the case of Asian Resurfacing of Road Agency Private Limited & Anr. V. Central Bureau of Investigation¹, passed by a three-judge Bench wherein, inter-alia, the law was laid down that where an order staying proceedings in any civil or criminal trial is passed, the same would automatically expire after a period of six months, extendable only by a speaking order. The correctness of the law laid down was questioned in the case of High Court Bar Association, Allahabad V. State of U.P. & Ors.², where the three-judge Bench referred the question to a Constitution Bench on 01.12.2023.

What were the issues in the Asian Resurfacing judgment?