Supreme Court · 1985 INSC 2 · Decided 10 January 1985
Har Sharan Verma v. State of U.P. & ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1985 INSC 2 · [1985] 2 S.C.R. 547
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 17135/1984
- Decided
- 10 January 1985
- Bench
- E.S. VENKATARAMIAH, D.P. MADON (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 164, 32, 164(1), 173(a), 164(4), 173, 188, 164(I)
Headnote
Constitution of India, Article 164 and Art{cle 173(a) (as amended by Constitution (Slxteenth) Amendment Act, 1963)-Ejfect of amendded Article 173(a)-A person not a member of State Legislature-Whether can be appointed as a Minister in a State even after amendment of Article 173(a). Held: Yes. tioner prayed for the issue of a writ in the nature of quo worranto to the respon­ dent K.P. Tewari who had been appointed in November, 1984 as a Minister of the Government of Uttar Pradesh under Article 164(1) of the Constitution by the Governor of the State of Uttar Pradesh even though
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