Supreme Court · 1961 INSC 338 · Decided 6 December 1961
M/S. Mathra Prashad and SONS. v. State of Punjab
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1961 INSC 338 · [1962] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 913
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 9/1961
- Decided
- 6 December 1961
- Bench
- BHUVNESHWAR PRASAD SINHA, J.L. KAPUR, M. HIDAYATULLAH, J.R. MUDHOLKAR (5-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Contract Act Section 70
Headnote
SUPREME COURT REPORTS 913 "shall be executed on behalf of the GoTemor­ General or Governor by such person and in such manner as he may direct or authorise". It therefore applies to consensual contracts which the Govern­ ment makes and not to something which is also if it is necessary to imply a contract or to contem­ plate the existence of a quasi-contract for applying the section that must be done and we do not think that s. 175(3) of the Government of India Act pre­ vents that, nor are we aware of any other impedi­ ment in this regard. This
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