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THE HIGH COURT OF MADHYA PRADESH Raman Dubey vs. State of MP The Supreme Court in the case of Subramanian Swamy v. Arun Shourie, reported in (2014) 12 SCC 344 has held as under :

33.3. The Court agreed with the following observations of the Nagpur High Court in M.V. Rajwade: (Baliram Waman Hiray case, SCC p. 450, para 34) "34. ... 'The Commission in question was obviously appointed by the State Government "for the information of its own mind", in order that it should not act, in exercise of its executive power, "otherwise than in accordance with the dictates of justice and equity" in ordering a departmental enquiry against its officers. It was, therefore, a fact-finding body meant only to instruct the mind of the Government without producing any document of a judicial nature. The two cases are parallel, and the decision must be as in Madhava Singh, that the Commission was not a court.