Supreme Court of India
K. Lakshminarayanan v. Union of India & Anr.
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What the Court ordered
For the above reasons except directions in paragraph 5 which are hereby deleted.
Judgment, page 66
From the headnote
Government of Union Territories Act, 1963: s.3(3) – Nominations made by the Central Government in exercise of power u/s. 3(3) to the Legislative Assembly of Union Territory of Puducherry – Whether Central Government under obligation to consult the Council of Ministers/Chief Minister of Government of Union Territory of Puducherry and the nomination by Central Government to be made only with the concurrence of the Government of Puducherry – Whether there is a constitutional convention to consult the Government of Puducherry, on the strength of the fact that on six earlier occasions when the…
Authorities it was built on
- 1973 His Holiness Kesavananda Bharati Sripadagalavaru v. State of Kerala
- 1994 S.R. Bommai v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1993 Supreme Court Advocates-on-record Association and Anr. v. Union of India
- 2006 Kuldip Nayar v. Union of India and Ors.
- 1977 State of Rajasthan & Ors. Etc. Etc. v. Union of India Etc. Etc.
- 2016 United India Insurance Co. Ltd. v. Mis Orient Treasures Pvt. Ltd.
- 1997 Mis Black Diamond Beverages and Anr. v. The Commercial Tax Officer, Central Section, Assessment Wing Calcutta and Ors.
- 1975 Jagir Singh & Ors. Etc. Etc. v. State of Bihar & Anr. Etc. Etc.
- 1969 R. Kempraj v. M/s. Barton Son & Co.
- 2009 Consumer Education & Research Society v. Union of India & Ors.
Where later benches applied it
- 2021 Ajit Mohan & Ors. v. Legislative Assembly National Capital Territory of Delhi & Ors.
- 2021 Dr. Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil v. The Chief Minister & Ors.
Of those, 2 referred to
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