Content Provider | Supreme Court of India |
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e-ISSN | 30484839 |
Language | English |
Access Restriction | NDLI |
Subject Keyword | Public Interest Litigation quo warranto |
Content Type | Text |
Resource Type | Law Judgement |
Jurisdiction | India |
Act(s) Referred | Constitution of India |
Case(s) Referred | Referred Case 0 Referred Case 1 Referred Case 2 Referred Case 3 Referred Case 4 Referred Case 5 |
Case Type | Writ Petition |
Court | Supreme Court of India |
Disposal Nature | Others |
Headnote | Constitution of India, 1950: Art. 32 read with Art. 217 - Petition for a writ of quo warranto seeking to quash appointment of Judge of High Court - Consultation process leading to appointment alleged to have been vitiated for failure of consideration of a criminal case pending against the incumbent - Held: 'Eligibility' of the incumbent is not in issue - As regards 'lack of effective consultation', a fact that is unknown to anyone cannot be said to be not taken into consideration and the consultative process cannot be faulted as incomplete for that reason - At the time the incumbent was being considered for appointment as a judge of High Court, he was unaware of any case being pending in which he was named as an accused -It is not a case of suppression of any material fact by the incumbent or at his behest - From the record, it is evident that none of the members of High Court or Supreme Court College was aware of the fact - State Government and Central Government were equally unaware of the fact - No case is made out for issuing a writ of quo warranto quashing the appointment of respondent No. 3 as the judge of High Court. Public Interest Litigation: Writ petition filed in 2012 seeking to quash appointment of a Judge of High Court made in 2000 - Held: Writ petition is based on incorrect facts - It is not a sincere and honest endeavour to correct something which the petitioners truly perceive to be wrong but the real intent of this petition is to malign respondent No.3 - Writ petition is not only without merit but also wanting in bona fides. Respondent no. 3 was appointed as Judge of the High Court as per Notification dated 19.6.2000 and he took oath on 27.6.2000. Two advocates of the said High Court filed the instant writ petition seeking a writ in the nature of quo warranto quashing the appointment of respondent no. 3 as a Judge of the High Court and a writ of mandamus commanding the State Bar Council to cancel his enrolment as an advocate. It was stated that the consultation process leading to appointment of respondent no. 3 was vitiated as both the High Court and the Supreme Court Collegia as well as the Central Government failed to consider that at the time of such appointment a criminal trial was pending in which respondent no. 3 was an accused and a proclaimed offender and even at the time of his enrolment as an advocate he had concealed the factum of criminal proceedings in his application for enrolment. The Attorney General submitted that the writ petition was not maintainable and the same was only a camouflage as the petitioners aimed at removal of the Judge who had been in office for over 12 years, which would be violative of the Constitutional scheme. |
Judge | Hon'ble Mr. Justice Aftab Alam |
Neutral Citation | 2013 INSC 73 |
Petitioner | M. Manohar Reddy & Anr. |
Respondent | Union Of India & Ors. |
SCR | [2013] 1 S.C.R. 711 |
Judgement Date | 2013-02-04 |
Case Number | 174 |
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