Supreme Court of India

Ashok Kumar Uppal and Ors. v. State of J&k and Ors.

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Reported as [1998] 1 S.C.R. 164

Bench S. Saghir Ahmad and D.P. Wadhwa JJ.

Decided 14 January 1998

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What the Court ordered

In view of the above, the Government can exercise the power to relax the Rules in all those cases in which hardship is caused in the implementation of those Rules to meet a particular situation or where injustice has been caused to either individual employee or class of employees.

Judgment, page 13

Authorities it was built on

1996 Ismail Abdul Latif Shaikh v. State of Maharashra and Anr. cited by 2
1989 State of Maharashtra v. Jagannath Achyut Karandikar cited by 1

Where later benches applied it

2012 State of Gujarat & Ors. v. Arvindkumar T. Tiwari & Anr. relied on
2014 Rajendra Kumar Agrawal v. State of U.P. & Ors. referred to

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