Supreme Court of India

Common Cause (a Regd. Society) v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2008] 6 S.C.R. 262
Bench H.K. Sema J.
Decided 11 April 2008

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3 Supreme Court benches have cited this judgment.

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

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 relied on · 1 referred to

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