Ramana Dayaram Shetty vs The International Airport Authority Of ... on 4 May, 1979
In the case of R.D. Shetty Vs. International Airport Authority, reported in (1979) 3
SCC 489, the Supreme Court has held that executive authority must be rigorously held
to the standards by which it professes its actions to be judged and it must
scrupulously observe those Standards on pain of invalidation of an act in violation of
them.