Supreme Court · 2016 INSC 411 · Decided 11 May 2016
Swaraj Abhiyan - (I) v. Union of India & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2016 INSC 411 · [2016] 9 S.C.R. 257
- Case number
- WRIT PETITION (CIVIL) No. 857/2015
- Decided
- 11 May 2016
- Bench
- MADAN B. LOKUR, N.V. RAMANA (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Directions issued
- Case type
- Writ / Constitutional
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 32, 21
Headnote
Public interest litigation - Non-disclosure of full facts about the drought like situation or drought by the States of Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana - Said issue matter of grave humanitarian distress - C · Writ petition filed seeking declaration of drought in some districts or parts thereof in drought in most parts of the State of Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana and to provide essential relief and compensation to people affected by drought - Held: Each of the three States-Bihar, Gujarat and Haryana have their own unique method of determining whether D there is a drought or not - Final
Judgments are the courts' own published copies, provided for study; they are not certified copies. Source: Indian Supreme Court & High Court Judgments, Dattam Labs (CC-BY-4.0)