well-recognised that a statutory
functionary exercising such a power cannot be said to
have delegated his functions merely by deputing a
responsible and competent ... this Court: (i) A statutory functionary exercising a power cannot be
said to have delegated his functions merely by deputing a responsible and
competent official
Shri Sanjay Singh vs Patna Municipal Corporation And Ors on 2 November, 2020
Author: Mohit
completely engaged to render their services and all
other departmental functionaries have stopped functioning and
they are only rendering the essential services in the field ... batch
to discharge his functions independently, free from any influence of
the local political parties. However, in the proviso to Article 243K
Court held that Statutory
functionaries like Registrar/Joint Registrar of
Cooperative Societies functioning under the
respective Act must be above suspicion and function
independently without ... Registrar and external influence
"36. Statutory functionaries like
Registrar/Joint Registrar of Co¬ operative
Societies functioning under the respective
Cooperative Act must be above
St.George Tabore Church vs The State Of Kerala on 17 December, 2020
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illustrative categories of employees are all functionaries, who are bound by a common thread about their different functions in a newspaper establishment - the common thread ... other functionaries or employees working in the newspaper establishment, who do not qualify for a journalist, judged on the essence of their function, would
task of discharging a participatory constitutional function;
there is no question of hierarchy between these constitutional
functionaries. Ultimately, the object of reading such
participatory consultative ... opined:
".....It is needless to emphasise that it is not the
function of the Court to hear appeals over the
decisions of the selection
Legislature, 'to deal with complaints relating to
corruption against certain public functionaries'. Many of the
provisions under Bihar Lokayukta Act, 2011 and Lokpal ... super executive empowered to supervise/ control
functionings of the executive and issue commandments to various
functionaries asking them to discharge their duties in a particular
administrative, that whenever a
decision making function is entrusted to the subjective
satisfaction of a statutory functionary, there is an implicit
obligation to apply
conduct of a public servant/public functionary in discharge of
his/her public functions and the public function stands on a different footing
than ... said imputation apparently made against the pubic functionaries, in
discharge of his/her public function, have no reasonable nexus with the
discharge of public duties
