Supreme Court · 2024 INSC 501 · Decided 9 July 2024
Army Welfare Education Society New Delhi v. Sunil Kumar Sharma & ORS. ETC.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2024 INSC 501 · [2024] 7 S.C.R. 2176
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 7256/2024
- Decided
- 9 July 2024
- Bench
- J.B. PARDIWALA, MANOJ MISRA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 12, 226
Headnote
a. Whether the appellant Army Welfare Education Society is a "State" within Article 12 of the Constitution of India so as to make a writ petition under Article 226 of the Constitution maintainable against it. In other words, whether a service dispute realm involving a private educational institution and its employees can be adjudicated upon in a writ petition filed under Article 226 of the Constitution; b. Even if it is assumed that the appellant Army Welfare Education Society is a body performing public duty amenable to writ jurisdiction,
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)