Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 758 · Decided 18 November 2021
National Confederation of Officers Association of Central Public Sector Enterprises and ORS. v. Union of India and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 758 · [2021] 10 S.C.R. 899
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 229/2014
- Decided
- 18 November 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- CPC Section 11; Constitution Article 32; Companies Act Section 617
Headnote
Disinvestment: Policy of disinvestment - Union Government's divestment of its residual shareholding of 29.54 % in HZL company - Public interest litigation u/Art. 32, seeking to refrain from disinvestment without amending the Nationalisation Act, 1976 - Held: Decision in Centre for Public Interest Litigation's case, does not apply to the present facts because HZL had ceased to be a government company, at the stage of the disinvestment -
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