Supreme Court of India

Union of India and Another v. Tulsiram Patel and Others

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Reported as [1985] SUPP. 2 S.C.R. 131

Bench Y.V. Chandrachud J.

Decided 11 July 1985

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What the Court ordered

Before parting with Cballappan's case, we may, also point out that that case never held the field.

Judgment, page 126

Authorities it was built on

1973 E. P. Royappa v. State of Tamil Nadu & Anr. cited by 139
1970 Rustom Cavasjee Cooper v. Union of India cited by 72
1975 Divisional Personnel Officer, Southern Railway & Anr. v. T. R. Challappan cited by 8

Where later benches applied it

2026 Manohar Lal v. Commissioner of Police & Ors. relied on
2025 P. Rammohan Rao v. K. Srinivas and Ors. Etc. relied on
2019 Rojer Mathew v. South Indian Bank Ltd. & Ors. relied on
2019 Hari Niwas Gupta v. State of Bihar and Another relied on
2016 Extra Judicial Execution Victim Families Association (eevfam) & Anr. v. Union of India & Anr. relied on
2015 Bcci v. Cricket Association of Bihar & Ors. relied on
2025 K. Prabhakar Hegde v. Bank of Baroda followed
2024 Central Organisation for Railway Electrification v. M/s Eci Spic Smo Mcml (jv) A Joint Venture Company followed
2023 Dr. V. R. Sanal Kumar v. Union of India & Ors. followed
2023 Aureliano Fernandes v. State of Goa and Others followed
2023 State Bank of India & Ors v. Rajesh Agarwal & Ors followed
2022 State of Himachal Pradesh & Ors. v. Raj Kumar & Ors. followed
2022 Union of India & Anr v. M/s Mohit Minerals Pvt. Ltd. through Director followed
2025 Vishu Vardhan @ Vishnu Pradhan v. The State of Uttar Pradesh & Ors. referred to
2025 State of Uttar Pradesh through Principal Secretary, Department of Panchayati Raj, Lucknow v. Ram Prakash Singh referred to
2025 Krishnadatt Awasthy v. State of M.P. & Ors. referred to
2024 The State of West Bengal v. Union of India referred to
2023 Santhosh Maize & Industries Limited v. The State of Tamil Nadu & Anr. referred to
2023 Government of Nct of Delhi v. Union of India referred to
2023 The Registrar General, High Court of Karnataka and Anr v. Sri M. Narasimha Prasad referred to
2022 Satyajit Kumar & Ors. v. The State of Jharkhand & Ors. referred to
2020 Chairman-cum-managing Director, Mahanadi Coalfields Limited v. Sri Rabindranath Choubey referred to
2020 Nisha Priya Bhatia v. Union of India & Anr. referred to
2018 State of Karnataka by its Chief Secretary v. State of T. N. by its Chief Secretary [dipak Misra, Cji] 829 the State of Karnataka by its Chief Secretarystate of Tamil Nadu by its Chief Secretary & Ors. referred to
2016 Mahipal Singh Rana, Advocate v. State of Uttar Pradesh referred to
2015 Ved Mitier Gill v. Union Territory Administration, Chandigarh and Others referred to
2011 Balchandra L. Jarkiholi & Ors. v. B.S. Yeddyurappa & Ors. referred to
2010 Competition Commission of India v. Steel Authority of India Ltd. & Anr. referred to
2014 Goa Foundation v. Union of India & Ors. mentioned
2016 Nidhi Kaim v. State of Madhya Pradesh & Others Etc. distinguished

Of those, 6 relied on · 7 followed · 1 distinguished · 15 referred to · 1 mentioned

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