Supreme Court · 1986 INSC 280 · Decided 20 December 1986
DR. D.C. Wadhwa & ORS. v. State of Bihar & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1986 INSC 280 · [1987] 1 S.C.R. 798
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 412/1984
- Decided
- 20 December 1986
- Bench
- P.N. BHAGWATI, RANGANATH MISRA, G.L. OZA, K.N. SINGH, M.M. DUTT (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 213
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950, Article 213-Scope of-Power of the Governor to repromulgate Ordinances from time to time without getting them replaced by Acts of Legislature-Scope of-Whether a colourable C exercise of power, repugnant to the constitutional scheme. The State of Bihar adopted a practice scale from time to time without their provisions being enacted into acts of the legislature. The practice was that, after D the session of the State Legislature was prorogued, the same ordinances which had ceased to operate were repromulgated containing substan­ tially the same
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