M/S. Kusum Ingots & Alloys Ltd vs Union Of India And Anr on 28 April, 2004
30.7 Kusum Ingots & Alloys Ltd v. U.O.I.- which is
considered a watershed decision in territorial
jurisdiction jurisprudence in the context of writ
petitions - examined the issue of whether a writ petition,
challenging a legislative enactment which had been
applied by a judicial or executive authority to the
prejudice of the petitioner, could be filed at Delhi, even
though the petitioner was not located within the
jurisdiction of this Court and had felt no effect of the
legislation within such jurisdiction, merely because the
situs of the Union legislature, which enacted the
legislation, was in Delhi. Answering the issue in the
negative, the Supreme Court held that a writ petition
would lie, not before the High Court having
jurisdiction over the legislature which enacted the
legislation, but over the location of the litigant who felt
the effect of the legislation by the passing of the
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judicial or executive order based on the impugned
legislation - which is what Girdhari Lal Gupta terms
"the dynamic effect". The intrinsic relationship
between the situs of a litigation, or an executive action
under challenge, and its dynamic effect as felt by the
litigant is, therefore, fossilized in the law."