Supreme Court of India

Bharat Ratna Indira Gandhi College of Engineering & Others v. State of Maharashtra & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 3 S.C.R. 1087
Bench Markandey Kat Ju and Gyan Sudha Misra JJ.
Decided 28 March 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the directions contained in paragraph 7 of the impugned judgment were wholly unwarranted as they amount to judicial legislation.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

Judgment/Order - Suo motu orders - Orders passed by Court on its own motion - Sustainability of - Held: Such suo motu orders, without even a petition on which they are passed, are ordinarily not justified nor sustainable - Ordinarily, there must be a petition on which the court can pass an order- On facts, the High Court was not justified in taking suo motu action on the basis of some information which was not disclosed in the impugned order - Judges must exercise restraint in such matters - By the impugned order, the High Court directed that if the Colleges failed to fill in the post of

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