Supreme Court of India

Executive Committee of Vaish Degree College, Shamli and Others v. Lakshmi Narain and Ors.

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Reported as [1976] 2 S.C.R. 1006

Bench Hans Raj Khanna J.

Decided 12 December 1975

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From the headnote

Merely because the appellant followed certain statutory provisions of the University Act or the Statutes made thereunder, it cannot be held to be a statutory body. [1014 -Bl (a) Before an institution can be a statutory body, it must be created by or under the statute a'!ld owe its existence to a statute. There is a well-marked dis'linction between a body which is created by the statute and a body which, after having come into existence, is governed in accordance with the provi sions of the statute. The question in such cases to be asked is, if there is no statute would the institution have

Authorities it was built on

1975 Sukhdev Singh & Ors. v. Bhagatram Sardar Singh Raghuvanshi and Anr. cited by 47
1975 Sabhajit Tewary v. Union of India & Ors. cited by 26
1965 Prabhakar Ramakrishna Jodh v. A. L. Pande and Another cited by 3

Where later benches applied it

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2018 Commissioner of Income Tax(tds) Kanpur and Anr. v. Canara Bank relied on
2013 Thalappalam Ser. Coop. Bank Ltd. and Ors. v. State of Kerala and Ors. relied on
2011 The Secretary, Sh. A. P. D.jain Pathshala & Ors. v. Shivaji Bhagwat More & Ors. relied on
2024 Army Welfare Education Society New Delhi v. Sunil Kumar Sharma & Ors. Etc. referred to
2023 Bishambhar Prasad v. M/s. Arfat Petrochemicals Pvt. Ltd. and Ors referred to
2022 St. Mary’s Education Society & Anr. v. Rajendra Prasad Bhargava & Ors. referred to
2017 The Maharashtra State Cooperative Housing Finance Corporation Ltd. v. Prabhakar Sitaram Bhadange referred to

Of those, 4 relied on · 4 referred to

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