Supreme Court of India

M.P. High Court Bar Association v. Union of India and Ors.

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Bench R.C. Lahoti and C.K. Thakker JJ.
Decided 17 September 2004

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2 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We hold that it was within D the power of the State Government to continue or not to continue State Administrative Tribunal and it was open to the State Government to take such a decision, it cannot be set aside merely on the ground that such a decision was not advisable in the facts of the case or that other decision could have been taken.

Judgment, page 40

From the headnote

M.P. Reorganisation Act, 2000 : Section 74(1). Abolition of State Administrative Tribunal-Constitutionality of-Held : Not ultra vires Art. 323- or any other part of the Constitution-Further, L. Chandra Kumar's case did not lay down that once a Tribunal is constituted, created or established, there was no power either in the Central Government or the State Governments to abolish it-Constitution of India, 1950, Art, 323- -Administrative Tribunals Act, 1985, S. 4(2).

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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