New Delhi, Nov. 27 -- The Supreme Court on Wednesday warned that a "growing trend" of reopening and overturning its own verdicts before differently constituted benches threatens to "undermine" the authority and credibility of the apex court, besides weakening the constitutional mandate of finality of its rulings. Sounding the alarm amid recent high-profile reversals, a bench of justices Dipankar Datta and AG Masih, cautioned that the practice of litigants attempting to secure a fresh outcome merely because of a change in bench composition risks undermining consistency and stability in the law, which are values central to the functioning of the Supreme Court. The bench lamented that in the recent past, "we have rather painfully observed a gr...