Supreme Court of India

Common Cause v. Union of India

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Bench P. Sathasivam, Ranjan Gogoi and N.V. Ramana JJ.
Decided 23 April 2014

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Administrative Law: Advertisement policy of Government of India - Judicial review of - Advertisement by Government using public funds c - Writ petition for laying down guidelines - Held: DA VP guidelines, which are available in the public domain, only deal with eligibility and empanelment of newspapers/journals or 0 other media, their rates of payment, and such like matters - There is no policy or guideline to regulate the content of Government advertisements and to exclude possibility of any ma/a fide use br misuse of public funds on advertisem'ents in order to gain political mileage by…

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