Supreme Court · 2014 INSC 172 · Decided 6 March 2014
Union of India and Others v. Major S.P. Sharma and Others
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2014 INSC 172 · [2014] 4 S.C.R. 327
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2951/2001
- Decided
- 6 March 2014
- Bench
- B.S. CHAUHAN, JASTI CHELAMESWAR, M.Y. EQBAL (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 309, 310, 141
Headnote
Administrative law: Doctrine of pleasure - Judicial review - Scope of - Termination of Armed Forces Personnel - Held: The order of termination passed against the Army personnel in exercise A B c of pleasure doctrine is subject to judicial review - But while exercising judicial review, D substitute its own conclusion on the ba~is of material on record - When the President in exercise of its constitutional power terminates the services of the Army officers, whose tenure of services are at the pleasure of the President and such termination is based on materials on record,
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