Supreme Court · 2012 INSC 328 · Decided 9 August 2012
Cantonment Board, Jammu & ORS. v. Jagat Pal Singh Cheema
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2012 INSC 328 · [2012] 6 S.C.R. 1192
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5820/2012
- Decided
- 9 August 2012
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
CANTONMENTS ACT, 1924: C ss. 52- Power of Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the command on reference u/s.51 or otherwise - Held: The power conferred by s. 52 in the Officer Commanding-in-Chief, the Command, is a power to correct the decisions of the Cantonment Board - It is a power vested in a high Cantonment to be exercised for the reasons spelt out by the statute - Therefore, the power conferred by the first part of s. 52 should not be, in any manner, curtailed by reading a limit thereon so as to exclude from its purview the matters that may have reached the specified authority by way of
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