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"By now, the parameters of the Court's power of judicial review of administrative or executive action or decision and the grounds on which the Court can interfere with the same are well-settled and it would be redundant to recapitulate the whole catena of decisions of this Court commencing from Barium Chemicals, 1966 Supp. SCR 311/AIR 1967 SC 295 case on the point. Indisputably, it is a settled position that if the action or decision is perverse or is such that no reasonable body of persons, property informed, could come to, or has been arrived at by the authority misdirecting itself by adopting 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 431/1980 Cri LJ 1487, 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 pertinent and proximate matters only, eschewing the irrelevant and the remote."

He has also placed reliance on the decision in the case of Oudh Sugar Mills Ltd. v. Union of India 1978 ELT (J) 172.

6. The respondent No. 1 State Bank of India and respondents Nos. 4, 6, 7, 9, 13 and 14 have strongly resisted this petition. The oral submissions made by learned Senior Counsel Mr. S.N. Soparkar is adopted by the learned Counsel appearing for other respondents.

6(i) As the petitioner has submitted points of submissions in writing, the first respondent has also submitted his points of submissions in writing. Mr. Soparkar before arguing the matter on merits, raised preliminary objection and has submitted that this Court should not examine the decision of AAIFR unless it is found that the view taken by the lower authority is palpably unsustainable, totally unsupported by evidence or such that no reasonable man can every take, this Court should not upset the same. Writ jurisdiction of this Court is a supervisory jurisdiction and is not of an Appellate Court. The AAIFR has exercised its quasi-judicial powers and the functions. AAIFR is a judicial functionary in a specialised field which would require a technical expertise and consideration of the various economical factors. So, considering the limited scope of jurisdiction, this Court should refuse to invoke jurisdiction under Articles 226 and 227 of the Constitution. For this purpose, Mr. Soparkar has placed reliance on the decision of Division Bench of this court in Gujarat Trade Union Manch v. Gujarat State Textile Corpn. [2000] 99 Comp. Cas. 461 and other decisions delivered while dealing with the Company Petition No. 328 of 1997 dated 11-9-1998. When this matter was placed for further hearing after reopening of the vacation, the decision of this Court in Special Civil Application No. 5125 of 2000 (Group), dated 10-1-2001 is also cited. He mainly relies on paras 14 to 18 of the Judgment (Coram: K.R. Vyas, J.). Mr. Soparkar has drawn the attention of this Court to a decision in the case of Sued Yakoob v. K.S. Radhakrishnan AIR 1964 SC 477 which clearly brings out the limited scope of jurisdiction of High Court while dealing with the decisions of a quasi-judicial functionary. While enlarging this argument, it is submitted by Mr. Soparkar that the issue brought before this Court by the petitioner should be examined from a very narrow angle if this Court finds that the lower authority i.e., AAIFR is wholly wrong and if the view taken by the AAIFR is neither unsustainable nor perverse, the petition should be dismissed. If this Court finds, on such scrutiny, that two views could be possible on the matter or where there is scope to take some other view than the finding of quasi-judicial authority should not be disturbed. Mr. Soparkar and Mr. Nanavati both the learned senior counsel for the parties have taken me through both the decisions of BIFR and AAIFR.