Supreme Court · 1983 INSC 122 · Decided 19 September 1983
Suman Gupta and Others ETC. v. State of J & K and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1983 INSC 122 · [1983] 3 S.C.R. 985
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 9078/1982
- Decided
- 19 September 1983
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, R.S. PATHAK, SABYASACHI MUKHERJI (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32
Headnote
985 CoKstitution of India, Art. 14-Powers and procedures resulting in unfairness· and arbitrariness....:....vio/ative of Art. 14. Ad"tinistrative Law-Vesting of absolute and un( ontrolled power in public authoritJ-;_Falls outside the Constitution and invalid. With a view to encourage states agreed upon an arrangement by which a certain percentage of the seats in medical colleges was reserved for candidates from other States on a reciprocal basis. In the y'ear 1982-83 the respondent States made some nominations under the above arrangement. T.he validity of these
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