Supreme Court of India

State of Maharashtra v. Public Concern for Governance Trust and Ors.

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Reported as [2007] 1 S.C.R. 87
Bench Dr. Ar. Lakshmanan and Al Tamas Kabir JJ.
Decided 4 January 2007

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the observations/strictures and remarks made by the High Court against the appellant behind his back F 'r is totally uncalled for and not warranted.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Strictures : Expunction of adverse remarks-Chief Minister endorsing 'please put up' on application addressed to him for allotment of plots by Societies­ Applications forwarded to the Authority for pocessing-Allotment of land to the Societies-Unwarranted observations made against Chief Minister by High Court-Appeal by State for expunging of remarks-Held: Notation 'please put up' by Chief Minister merely means that the Department should process the applications in accordance with the procedure -It does not mean approval-High Court erred in making observations regarding notations made in files

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 3 relied on · 1 referred to

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