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Deepen Arun Parekh vs State Bank Of India And 4 Ors on 9 March, 2023

14. The executive instructions that constitute the LOC regime, the Office Memoranda issued by the Ministry of Home Affairs, are not a statute. They are not legislative acts enacted by a competent legislature. As this Court held in the Preceding Judgment, an LOC, though a recognised administrative instrument, operates in a constitutionally sensitive field. The mere existence of an administrative instruction authorising the issuance of an LOC does not, by itself, satisfy the requirement of a "law" as contemplated by Article 21. Executive action operating in the field of personal liberty must have a statutory anchor; the Office Memoranda cannot serve as a substitute for legislative mandate. This position, laid down in Maneka Gandhi and applied consistently by this Court and the Bombay High Court in Viraj Chetan Shah v. Union of India4, constitutes settled constitutional law.
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