Supreme Court · 2010 INSC 371 · Decided 7 July 2010
East Coast Railway & ANR. ETC. v. Mahadev Appa Rao & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2010 INSC 371 · [2010] 7 S.C.R. 908
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4964/2010
- Decided
- 7 July 2010
- Bench
- AFTAB ALAM, T.S. THAKUR (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Disposed off
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14, 16
Headnote
Administrative Law: c Judicial review - Order of administrative authority - Canceling typewriting test without assigning reasons - HELD: An order passed by a public authority must be judged by reasons stated in the order or the record contemporaneously maintained - Application of mind by the by recording reasons in support of the order - Absence of reasons in the order or the contemporaneous record is suggestive of the order being arbitrary - High Court rightly set aside the order by which the typewriting test was cancelled - Constitution of India, 1950 - Articles 14 and 16 E -
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