Sasidharan vs Reserve Bank Of India on 23 June, 1990
"18. xxxxxxxxxx. Such a reserve power to correct
mistakes committed by itself has to be located in every public
authority in the interests of justice and to avoid arbitrariness. It
is not uncommon - in fact it is a human failing that errors are
committed in the conduct of human affairs. Infallibility is not a
human virtue, that being a quality attributable only to the
Almighty. Such a power to correct apparent mistakes is
therefore an absolute necessity and has to be found in every
authority, even without a specific provision as was held by me
earlier in my decision in Sasidharan v. Reserve Bank of India
(1990 (2) KLT 573, paragraph, 7 relying on the decision in
Karunakaran Nambiar V. Director of Public Instruction, 1966
KLT 290 and others".