Supreme Court of India

Shimnit Utsch India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. West Bengal Transport Infrastructure

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Reported as [2010] 6 S.C.R. 1110
Bench R.V. Raveendran, R.M. Lodha and C.K. Prasad JJ.
Decided 12 May 2010

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, both appeals must fail and are dismissed with no order as to cost.

Judgment, page 41

From the headnote

Government policy - Alteration/change in policy - Permissibility - Judicial intervention - Scope of - Held: The government has a discretion to adopt a different policy or alter or change its policy calculated to serve public interest and make it more effective - Where the circumstances changed in some material respects, departure from the earlier policy cannot be held to be legally flawed, particularly when there is no challenge to the changed policy on the ground of Wednesbury reasonableness or principle of legitimate expectation or arbitrariness or irrationality- Administrative law -

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