Comptroller And Auditor General Of ... vs K.S. Jagannathan & Anr on 1 April, 1986
In the case of The Comptroller and Auditor General of India, Gian
Prakash, New Delhi and another Vs. K.S. Jagannathan and another -
(AIR 1987 SC 537), a three-Judge Bench of this Court referred to
Halsbury's Laws of England, Fourth Edition, Volume I paragraph 89 to
illustrate the range of this remedy and quoted with approval the
following passage from Halsbury about the efficacy of Mandamus: