Supreme Court of India

K. Lakshminarayanan v. Union of India & Anr.

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Reported as [2018] 14 S.C.R. 689
Bench A. K. Sikri, Ashok Bhushan and S. Abdul Nazeer JJ.
Decided 6 December 2018

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What the Court ordered

For the above reason s except directions in paragraph 5 which are hereby deleted.

Judgment, page 66

From the headnote

Government of Union Territories Act, 1963: s.3(3) – Nominations made by the Central Government in exercise of power u/s. 3(3) to the Legislative Asse mbly of Union Territory of Puducherry – Whether Central Governmen t under obligation to consult the Council of Ministers/Chie f Minister of Government of Union Territory of Puducherry and the nomi nation by Central Government to be made only with the conc urrence of the Government of Puducherry – Whether there is a const itutional convention to consult the Government of Puducherry, on the st rength of the fact that on six earlier occasions when

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