Gullapalli Nageswara Rao And Others vs Andhra Pradesh State Road ... on 5 November, 1958
As my learned brothers aforesaid have stated the relevant
facts in detail, it is not necessary for me to repeat them,
but as I differ from my learned brother Subba Rao, with whom
some of my colleagues on the Constitution Bench have agreed,
and for whose opinions, I have the greatest respect, I
should state my reasons for differing from them and for
agreeing with our brother Wanchoo. It may be taken as the
settled view of this Court that the question whether a
certain decision envisaged in a statute, is judicial or
quasijudicial or only administrative in character, must de-
pend upon the terms of the statute law itself, apart from
any pre-conceived notions about the functions of a court or
other tribunals vested with the duty and jurisdiction to
decide controversies as a judicial body, vide Province of
Bombay v. Kusaldas S. Advani (1), Nagendra Nath Bora v.
Commissioner of Hills Division(2) and Express Newspapers
Limited v. Union of India (3).