Supreme Court of India

National Confederation of Officers Association of Central Public Sector Enterprises and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors.

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Reported as [2021] 10 S.C.R. 899
Bench Dr. Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud and B. V . Nagarathna JJ.
Decided 18 November 2021

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What the Court ordered

We hold: [….] (120.3) If the inquiry discloses the commission of a cogni zable offence, the FIR must be registered.

Judgment, page 46

From the headnote

Disinvestment: Policy of disinvestment – Union Government’s divestment of its residual shareholding of 29.54 % in HZL co mpany – Public interest litigation u/Art. 32, seeking mand amus directing the Union Government to refrain from disinvestment without amending the Nationalisation Act, 1976 – Held: Decision in Centre for Public Interest Litigation’s case, does not apply to the present facts because HZL had ceased to be a government company, at the stage of the disinvestment – Thus, the Union Government’s deci sion to disinvest 29.54 per cent of its residual sharehol ding in HZL is not

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