Supreme Court · 2004 INSC 10 · Decided 5 January 2004
M.T. Khan and ORS. v. Government of Andhra Pradesh and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2004 INSC 10 · [2004] 1 S.C.R. 117
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 4/2004
- Decided
- 5 January 2004
- Bench
- V.N. KHARE, S.B. SINHA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- CrPC Section 24, 25; Constitution Article 162, 165, 367, 13
Headnote
ORS. A v. GOVERNMENT OF ANDHRA PRADESH AND ORS. JANUARY 5, 2004 (V. N. KHARE, CJ AND S.B. SINHA, J.] B Constitution of India, 1950; Articles 162, 165 and 367: Appointment of Additional Advocate Generals by the State-Challenge to-Writ Petition dismissed by High Court holding that having regard to that Additional Advocate General/Generals so appoi111ed would pe1:form Constitutional functions-On appeal, Held: State, in exercise of its executive power, is competent to appoint as many Lauyers of D its choice as it thinks adequate to defend it in the legal proceedings-State could also
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