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"..........Indisputably, itisa settled position that if the action or decision is perverse or is such that no reasonable body of persons, properly informed, could come to. or has been arrived at by the authority misdirecting itself by adpting a wrong approach, or has been influenced by irrelevant or extraneous matters the Court would be justified in interfering with the same. This Court in one of its later decisions in Smt. Shalini Soni v. Union of India (1981) 1 SCR 962 : AIR 1981 SC 431, has observed thus : "It is an unwritten rule of the law, constitutional and administrative, that whenever a decision-making function is entrusted to the subjective satisfaction of a statutory functionary, there is an implicit obligation to apply his mind to pertient and proximate matters only, eschewing the irrelevant and the remote."