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Showing contexts for: actionable wrong in Shashi Kant Mall vs Vice-Chancellor And Ors. on 15 September, 1981Matching Fragments
15. Having thus found that the petitioner had been wrongfully denied the admission, we are of opinion that the Pantnagar University was guided by irrelevant considerations in refusing to admit the petitioner. Exercise of a power for an improper purpose includes not only a case of malice or personal dishonesty on the part of the officials but also that of mistaken interpretation by a public authority of what it is empowered to do. The petitioner was not admitted on account of mistaken interpretation and due to wrong action of the University authorities.