If I have understood the question correctly, then the answer about the number of stages involved in SLP are as under:
(1) File your SLP. Get Diary No.
(2) Remove the defects, if any, pointed out by the Registry.
(3) After this, the regular SLP No. is given to your SLP.
(4) Thereafter, the SLP is listed before the Supreme Court judges (generally, a bench of two judges) for Notice.
(5) Most of SLPs are dismissed at this stage, i.e., first date itself, since generally SC refuses to entertain the SLP and to issue the notice.
(6) If notice is issued, the Respondents are asked to file reply.
(7) For completion of pleadings (such as filing of replies, service of notice, etc.), the SLP may now be listed before the Registrar Court in SC.
(8) After pleadings are completed and replies are filed, the SLP is listed before the SC bench (of judges) again.
(9) At this stage, the SC may decide the matter finally (either by dismissing it or by deciding in favour of the petitioner). Or else, the SC may grant leave in which case the SLP is now freshly registered as a Civil Appeal or Criminal Appeal, as the case may be.
(10) If the leave was granted, as mentioned above, the Civil or Criminal Appeal is now listed before regular bench for final disposal and the case is finally decided after hearing it in detail.
(11) Of course, there may be several adjournments at every stage.
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