Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 218 · Decided 13 November 1980
Ajay Hasia ETC. v. Khalid Mujib Sehravardi & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 218 · [1981] 2 S.C.R. 79
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1304/1979
- Decided
- 13 November 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, S. MURTAZA FAZAL ALI, A.D. KOSHAL (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 12
Headnote
Adn1ission to Engineering College-Jammu & Kashmir Regional Engineer­ ing College, Srinagar, registered as a society under the Jam1nu & Kashmir Registration of Societies Act, 1898-Whether a "State" under Article 12 of the Constitution and amenable to writ jurisdiction. Viva thr candidates fa,Ning only two or three minutes asking formal questions relating to the candidates parentage and residence and without any relevance to the subject for which marks were allo- c cated, whether arbitrary-Allocation of 113 of the total marks required for the qr1alifying examination
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