Supreme Court · 2021 INSC 554 · Decided 27 September 2021
Saregama India Limited v. Next Radio Limited & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2021 INSC 554 · [2021] 9 S.C.R. 137
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5985/2021
- Decided
- 27 September 2021
- Bench
- D.Y. CHANDRACHUD, B.V. NAGARATHNA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 226; NI Act Section 138
Headnote
Constitution of India: Art. 226 - Writ jurisdiction, scope of - Judicial rewriting, permissibility - Held: Writ court is entrusted by the Constitution of the power of judicial review - In the discharge of its mandate, the court may evaluate the validity of a legislation or However, the court in exercise of judicial review cannot supplant the terms of the provision through judicial interpretation by re-writing statutory language - In the instant case, High Court by interim order modified the operation of Rule 29 of the Copyright Rules by stipulating that
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