Supreme Court of India

State of Uttar Pradesh v. Batuk Deo Patil Tripathi & Anr.

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Reported as [1978] 3 S.C.R. 131
Bench M. Hameedullah Beg, Y.V. Chandrachud, P.N. Bhagwati, P.S. Kailasam and V.D. Tulzapurkar JJ.
Decided 21 February 1978

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it is wrong to characterise as E 'delegation' the process whereby the entire High Court authorises a Judge or some of the Judges of the Court to act on behalf of the whole Court.

Judgment, page 14

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 followed · 2 referred to

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