Supreme Court · 1990 INSC 1 · Decided 9 January 1990
K.M. Sharma v. Devi Lal & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1990 INSC 1 · [1990] 1 S.C.R. 1
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 1269/1989
- Decided
- 9 January 1990
- Bench
- RANGANATH MISRA, M.M. PUNCHHI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 75(4), 32
Headnote
B Constitution of India, 1950: Article 75(4) and Schedule III Forms I and II-Oath/Affirmation by Minister-Description of person as Deputy Prime Minister-Whether valid, legal and constitutional. The petitioner challenged the appointment of Respondent No. 1 as Deputy Prime Minister of India on the prescrip­ tion of the Constitution. The petition was contested by Respondent No. I and the Union of India. It was contended for the latter that describing Respondent No. I D as Deputy Prime Minister was descriptive and for all purposes he was a Minister, that the form of oath prescribed in
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