Supreme Court of India
Shimnit Utsch India Pvt. Ltd. & Anr. v. West Bengal Transport Infrastructure
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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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Where later benches applied it
- 2011 Apm Terminals B.V. v. Union of India & Anr.
- 2025 Vinishma Technologies Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Chhattisgarh & Anr.
- 2021 Rajeev Suri v. Delhi Development Authority & Ors
- 2019 Union of India & Anr. Etc. v. Bgp Products Operations Gmbh and Hagene Immermatt Weg. & Anr. Etc.
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