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Mandamus

Case BriefsHigh Courts

Pat HC | Prisoners Act: State government may grant parole only after receiving recommendation from the District Parole Board

Patna High Court: A Division Bench of Amreshwar Pratap Sahi, CJ and Anjana Mishra, J. denied dismissed a petition filed for consideration

Published on June 21, 2019June 27, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsForeign Courts

SL CoA | Mere allotment of parking area by competent authority of Railways is a private affair; Held, mandamus lies to secure performance of a public duty

Court of Appeal of the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka: Mahinda Samayawardhena, J. entertained a writ petition where the petitioner sought,

Published on June 20, 2019July 18, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Utt HC | Power conferred on the Supreme Court, under Article 142 to do complete justice, not available to High Courts under Article 226 of the Constitution

Uttaranchal High Court: A Division Bench of Ramesh Ranganathan, CJ and N.S. Dhanik, J. entertained a PIL which sought mandamus to direct

Published on June 3, 2019June 4, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

All HC | ‘Bench Hunting’ deprecated by Court – Petition seeking same reliefs as sought in an earlier petition, which was dismissed as withdrawn, not maintainable 

Allahabad High Court: The Bench of B. Amit Sthalekar and Piyush Agrawal, JJ., dismissed a civil writ petition, seeking certain reliefs on

Published on May 3, 2019May 3, 2019By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Letters sent to the State to be decided first where assessee was unable to file the online quarterly returns

Punjab and Haryana High Court: Petitioner had filed this petition before a 2-Judge Bench of Ajay Kumar Mittal and Sudip Ahluwalia, JJ.,

Published on December 25, 2018December 28, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Claim already raised before competent court not to be interfered by High Court especially when no ground for the same is found

Madhya Pradesh High Court: This writ was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Sheel Nagu, J., in nature of mandamus.  The

Published on December 17, 2018December 19, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Allahabad HC allows candidate barred for non-payment of fees to appear in UP Teacher Eligibility Test, 2018

Allahabad High Court: This petition was filed before a Single Judge Bench of Ajit Kumar, J. where an interim order in favour

Published on November 21, 2018November 29, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Appointment to a particular post cannot be claimed as a vested right, even after a candidate is selected for the said post

Madhya Pradesh High Court: A Single Judge Bench of Vivek Rusia, J., dismissed a writ petition filed by the petitioner seeking a

Published on November 6, 2018November 19, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Writ in nature of mandamus dismissed for non-prosecution

Punjab and Haryana High Court: A Single Judge Bench comprising of Jaswant Singh, J., dealt with a writ petition in nature of

Published on November 5, 2018November 12, 2018By Bhumika Indulia
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Case Briefs

Free movement of citizens cannot be brought to a standstill for holding political meeting or procession

Calcutta High Court: While addressing a PIL, the division bench of Jyotirmay Bhattacharya, C.J. and Arjit Banerjee J. held that “No major

Published on May 11, 2018By Saba
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Administrative authority cannot be issued mandamus to exercise discretionary power vested in it by the Statute

Supreme Court: In the appeal against the order of the High Court where it refused to issue mandamus to the Central Government

Published on April 25, 2017May 3, 2017By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsSupreme Court

Notice issued to Union of India in petition seeking direction to specify what constitutes disrespect and abuse of National Anthem

Supreme Court: In the writ of mandamus seeking a direction asking the Union of India to specify what would be constituting disrespect

Published on October 28, 2016November 26, 2016By Prachi Bhardwaj
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Case BriefsHigh Courts

Writ of mandamus against State Government rejected by the High Court on account of unwillingness of the investigation authority not made out

Delhi High Court: While dismissing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), seeking a mandamus directing the Union of India to register a criminal

Published on December 24, 2015December 24, 2015By Sucheta
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Supreme Court

Courts cannot interfere with policy decision by adding something to the policy by way of mandamus

Supreme Court: Holding the decision of the Madras High Court where the authorities were directed to take measures to conduct caste-wise census

Published on November 12, 2014October 14, 2015By Sucheta
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