Constitution of India unless the functions are such which
are akin to the functions of the State or are sovereign in nature.
32. The decision ... discharging of public functions and duties akin to the sovereign
functions discharged by the State is significantly absent. The challenge
in the writ petition
held to be an industry rather it is a part of
sovereign function.
5. Learned counsel for the petitioners submits that a specific plea ... function of the department was not in
discharge of any sovereign function of the State. These aspects of the
matter have not been considered
which an individual is vested with some portion of the sovereign functions of the government to be exercised by him for the benefit ... Sovereign'. State activities are multifarious, from the primal ''Sovereign' power which exclusively inalienably could be exercised by the sovereign alone, which
area on
Government projects. As such, it was performing they are
sovereign functions. It was submitted, respondent raised
dispute by alleging that he was appointed ... engaged in carrying out work for Government/Government
Agencies, which were sovereign functions and also about
workman having worked for minimum period of 240 days
consider the question whether
the Geological Survey of India exercises sovereign function, as I
am of the view that this is a case governed ... benefit by the status.
(b) Notwithstanding the previous clauses, sovereign
functions, strictly understood, (alone) qualify for
exemption, not the welfare activities or economic
adventures undertaken
consider the question whether
the Geological Survey of India exercises sovereign function, as I
am of the view that this is a case governed ... benefit by the status.
(b) Notwithstanding the previous clauses, sovereign
functions, strictly understood, (alone) qualify for
exemption, not the welfare activities or economic
adventures undertaken
benefit by the status.
(b) Notwithstanding the previous clauses, sovereign
functions, strictly understood, (alone) qualify for exemption,
not the welfare activities or economic adventures undertaken ... government or statutory bodies.
(c) Even in departments discharging sovereign functions, if
there are units which are industries and they are
substantially severable, then they
limitation and that no damages could be
awarded in respect of sovereign functions as the
establishment and maintenance of jail was part of the
sovereign ... Central
Government or by the State Government as part of their
sovereign functions in maintaining law and order in the
country and, therefore, the suit
further went on to state that issuance of passport is a
sovereign function and that the Passport Officer performs scrutiny by
seeking necessary assistance from ... statutory regime
of Passports Act, 1967 . The same is essentially a sovereign function and the
document essentially remains the property of the Central Government
Trading Corporation reported in (2021) 2 SCC 1 has clearly delineated
sovereign functions of the State which are inalienable and non-delegable and as
such ... opinion of the Apex Court is extracted
hereunder:
"50. Sovereign functions of the State being inalienable and non-
delegable are non-arbitrable
