Supreme Court of India
Centre for Public Interest Litigation v. Union of India and Anr.
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What the Court ordered
In the result, we allow these petitions restraining the Central Govern ment from proceeding with disinvestment resulting in HPCL and BPCL G ceasing to be Government companies without appropriately amending the statutes concerned suitably.
Judgment, page 17
From the headnote
ESSO (Acquisition of Undertaking in India) Act, 1974-Section 7- Disinvestment-Procedure required for-Private oil companies acquired by the Government by enacting various statutes-Government taking decision to disinvest oil companies by executive decision-No steps to repeal or amend the provisions of the statutes-Held, disinvestment cannot be made without repealing or amending the statutes-Constitution of India-Article 32. Interpretation of Statute-Preamble to a statute-Significance a/- Held, though does not control the statute but can be an aid to construction of the statute. In the 1970s,
Where later benches applied it
- 2024 Directorate of Enforcement v. Bibhu Prasad Acharya, Etc.
- 2012 Adarsh Shiksha Mahavidyalaya and Others v. Subhash Rahangdale and Others
- 2024 IN RE: DIRECTIONS IN THE MATTER OF DEMOLITION OF STRUCTURES versus
- 2021 National Confederation of Officers Association of Central Public Sector Enterprises and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 distinguished · 1 referred to
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