Supreme Court of India

Dibakar Satpathy v. Hon'ble the Chief Justice and Judgesof the High Court of O

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Decided 14 March 1961

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The appellant an Under Secretary to the Board of Revenue, circulated to the District Magistrates, the opinions of the Legal Remembrance and the Advocate General with an endorsement directing that a procedure contrary to that indicated by the High Court, be followed "until the matter is carried to the High Court in some case, so that the confusion created by the Orissa High Court decision I.R. 1951 Orissa 40 might be set at rest".…

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