📜 Official Text

(1) Where the same or substantially similar legal questions are pending before the Supreme Court and one or more High Courts, or before two or more High Courts, and the Supreme Court is satisfied these are substantial questions of general importance, it may withdraw the case(s) from the High Court(s) and decide them itself, later returning them to the High Court to be disposed of in line with its judgment on the legal questions. (2) The Supreme Court may also transfer any case, appeal, or proceeding from one High Court to another, if expedient for the ends of justice.