Supreme Court Explains Ambit of Judicial Review in Contractual Matters

Supreme Court Explains Ambit of Judicial Review in Contractual Matters

It has been held in State of UP v. Arvind Kumar Nigam [2012] GCtR 6502 (SC) that State cannot be excluded from the ambit of judicial review merely on the ground that it is a contractual matter. The expression ‘At any time without assigning any cause’, can be divided into two portions, one “at any time”, which merely means the termination may be made even during the subsistence of the term of appointment and second, “without assigning any cause” which means without communicating any cause to the appointee whose appointment is terminated. However, “without assigning any cause” is not to be equated with “without existence of any cause”.