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Dwarkanath, Hindu Undivided Family vs Income-Tax Officer, Special Circle, ... on 29 March, 1965

In Dwarkanath, Hindu Undivided Family v. Income-Tax Officer, Special Circle, Kanpur, and another, [1965] 3 S.C.R. 536, 540 this Court pointed out that Article 226 is designedly couched in a wide language in order not to confine the power conferred by it only to the power to issue prerogative writs as understood in England, such wide language being used to enable the High Courts "to reach injustice wherever it is found" and "to mould the reliefs to meet the peculiar and complicated requirements of this country."
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Hochtlef Gammon vs State Of Orissa & Ors on 4 September, 1975

In Hochtief Gammon's Case this Court pointed out (at page 675) that the powers of the Courts in relation to the orders of the Government or an officer of the Government who has been conferred any power under any statute, which apparently confer on them absolute discretionary powers, are not confined to cases where such power is exercised or refused to be exercised on irrelevant considerations or on erroneous ground or mala fide, and in such a case a party would be entitled to move the High Court for a writ of mandamus.
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State Of Kerala & Anr vs N. M. Thomas & Ors on 19 September, 1975

"The matter has been examined in detail and it has been decided that a lower standard for SC and ST candidates in all the groups, where the promotion is on the basis of seniority-cum-fitness and there is qualifying examination to determine the fitness of the candidates, to the extent as prescribed in this Office letter No. 63/1/71-SPBI dated 17th July 1971 (copy enclosed) be observed subject to 46 the instructions contained in the last sentence of para 1 of Department of Personnel and A.R.O.M. dated 21.1.77 referred to above. It may also be stated that the relaxation of standard should be the minimum limit upto which the competent authorities could go down in order to fill the vacancies reserved for ST and SC in such qualifying examination."
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V.V. Iyer Of Bombay vs Jasjit Singh, Collector Of Customs And ... on 22 September, 1972

What relevance the above decision has to the facts of the present case is also beyond us. It is not possible to equate the members of the Scheduled Castes with goods imported from abroad. They are human beings like all other human beings, the only difference being that for centuries a large number of their countrymen have not treated them as human beings but as sub-human creatures beyond the pale of society and even of humanity. William Blake in his poem "Auguries of Innocence" said:
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