Supreme Court of India
Common Cause (a Regd. Society) v. Union of India & Ors.
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What the Court ordered
Resultantly they lose faith in the administration F of our judicial system.
Judgment, page 36
From the headnote
Public Interest Litigation - Petitioner seeking directions to authorities for taking various traffic safety measures to control c occurrence of road accidents - Scope of - Held: Futile . directions to authorities as sought for by the petitioner amounts to legislative/executive action, which only the legislature/ executive is competent to give - Judiciary cannot encroach into the domain of the legislature/executive - The Courts must 0 exercise judicial restraint and must not perform executive! legislative functions - Article 21 of the Constitution must not be used by the Courts to justify
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Where later benches applied it
- 2014 Pravasi Bhalai Sangathan v. Union of India & Ors.
- 2012 V.K. Naswa v. Home Secretary, U.O.I. and Ors.
- 2017 State of Gujarat and Another v. The L.R.C.G. and Others
Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to
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