Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 313 · Decided 23 April 2014
Common Cause v. Union of India
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 313 · [2014] 5 S.C.R. 543
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 13/2003
- Decided
- 23 April 2014
- Bench
- P. SATHASIVAM, RANJAN GOGOI, N.V. RAMANA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Hearing Adjourned
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 21
Headnote
Administrative Law: Advertisement policy of Government of India - Judicial review of - Advertisement by Government using public funds A B c - Writ petition for laying down guidelines - Held: DA VP guidelines, which are available in the public domain, only deal with eligibility and empanelment media, their rates of payment, and such like matters - There is no policy or guideline to regulate the content of Government advertisements and to exclude possibility of any ma/a fide use br misuse of public funds on advertisem'ents in order to gain political mileage by political establishment
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