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17. The Wednesbury's Principle is the leading precept to determine such controversies relating to arbitrariness. The Constitutional Bench of the Supreme Court in Rameshwar Prasad v. Union of India [(1994) 3 SCC 1] stated that:
"201. 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. (See: Smt. Shalini Soni and Ors. v. Union of India and Ors. 1980CriLJ1487 ).