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10. The next argument of Mr. Vyas was that in any case the Tribunal should have of its own motion exercised its re-visional power. Now whether the Tribunal should exercise its revisional power suo motu is a question of discretion and it is pointless for Mr. Vyas to urge that this Court should compel the Tribunal to exercise its discretion. As held in Har-dutt Singh v. State Transport Authority it is for the revisional authority to see whether in any case it should exercise its revisionai jurisdiction of its own motion as the exercise of that jurisdiction is a matter of judicial discretion. It is patent that no mandamus can lie to compel a body to exercise its discretion in a particular manner unless the refusal to exercise its discretionary jurisdiction is vitiated by mala fide or is based on irrelevant ground or extraneous consideration. Such is not the case here and therefore, it is not possible to find fault with the respondent 1 as to why it did not exercise its own revisionai jurisdiction in the present case,