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18. At this stage it is appropriate to remember the extent of power of judicial review available against an administrative decision, required to be taken on subjective satisfaction. The scope of judicial review of administrative action in such circumstances is well demacrated. In the case of Shalini Soni v. Union of India , on that aspect of the matter, the Supreme Court said thus :

"It is 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. Where there is further an express statutory obligation to communicate not merely the decision that (but also) the grounds on which the decision is founded, it is a necessary corollary that the grounds communicated, that is, the grounds made known, should be seen to pertain to pertinent and proximate matters and should comprise all the constituent facts and materials that went in to make up the mind of the statutory functionary and not merely the inferential conclusions." (See also C. M. Engineer v. Jyothi prasad S. L. R. 1975 (2) Cal. 437 at pp. 462-462).