Supreme Court · 1980 INSC 117 · Decided 9 May 1980
Ambika Prasad Mishra ETC. v. State of U.P. and ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1980 INSC 117 · [1980] 3 S.C.R. 1159
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1543/1977
- Decided
- 9 May 1980
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, P.N. BHAGWATI, V.R. KRISHNA IYER, V.D. TULZAPURKAR, A.P. SEN (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 15, 32
Headnote
Uttar Pradesh Imposition of Ceiling on Land Holdings Act, 1960-Con.rtitu­ tional Validity-Jlalue of stare decisi.f.-vis-a-vis judicial review. Dismissing !he appeals and the Writ Petitions, the Court· HEID : ( 1) .-It is fundamental that the nation's Constitution is not kept in review every season because it paralyses, by perennial suspense, all legislative and administrative action on vit.al issues deteind by the brooding interest of forensic blow-up. This, if permitted, may well be a kind of judicial destabilisation of Stare action too dangerous to be indulged in
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