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Sri Golden Sizing Mills vs The Union Of India on 25 July, 2011 cites

Mohinder Singh Gill & Anr vs The Chiief Election Commissioner, New ... on 2 December, 1977

32.The power to affect citizen's rights, especially by way punitive impost or damages for wrongdoing, is quasi-judicial in character even if exercised by executive echelons. This Court has underscored the importance of injecting the norms of natural justice when statutory functionaries affect the lights of a person. The most recent of the cases which lay bare the elementals of this branch of jurisprudence are: (1) Siemens Engineering and Manufacturing Co. of India Ltd. v. Union of India7; (2) Maneka Gandhi (Mrs) v. Union of India8 and (3) Mohinder Singh Gill v. Chief Election Commissioner, New Delhi9.
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N.M. Desai vs The Testeels Ltd. And Anr. on 17 December, 1975

That has been laid down by a long line of decisions of this Court ending with N.M. Desai v. Testeels Ltd.10 (emphasis supplied) Fair play in Administration is a finer juristic facet, at once fundamental and inviolable and natural justice is an inalienable functional component of quasi-judicial acts. Here, it is indubitable that the imposition of damages on a party, after a statutory hearing, is a quasi-judicial direction. This Court has impressed the requirements of natural justice on such jurisdictions and one such desideratum is spelling out reasons for the order made, in other words, a speaking order. The inscrutable face of a sphinx is ordinarily incongruous with a judicial or quasi-judicial performance. It is, in my view, an imperative of Section 14-B that the Commissioner shall give reasons for his order imposing damages on an employer. The constitutionality of the power, tested on the anvil of Articles 14 and 19, necessitates this prescription. Such a guarantee ensures rational action by the officer, because reasons imply relevant reasons, not capricious ink and the need for cogency rivets the officer's mind to the pertinent material on record. Moreover, once reasons are set down, the order readily exposes itself to the writ jurisdiction of the court under Article 226 so that perversity, illiteracy, extraneous influence, mala fides and other blatant infirmities straight get caught and corrected. Thus, viewing the situation from the conspectus of requirements and remedies, statutory agencies may be inhibited and the scare of arbitrary behaviour allayed once reasons are required to be given."
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