population could be called sovereign function. The Supreme Court held that functions whenever are inalienable can be called sovereign function. It intended to fulfil ... that sovereign functions are primarily inalienable function which the State could exercise. Welfare activity of the State cannot be said to be sovereign function. Absence
function was sovereign in character. It was further argued that it is an admitted legal position that sovereign functions qualify for exemption from the purview ... those functions the Board does not administer justice. Functions which help to secure justice are not functions constituting administration of justice. Those functions
cannot be considered to be a sovereign act or an act committed in the course pf delegated sovereign functions of the State.
9. The fact ... sovereign or a person by virtue of delegation of sovereign rights. And therefore, although the maintenance of Army is a sovereign function of the Union
exercise regal functions observed that those
functions which are primary and inalienable of a constitutional
Government, can be held to be sovereign functions ... external security,
grant of pardon. So, the dichotomy between sovereign and non-sovereign
function could be found by finding which of the functions
demarcating line between
sovereign and non-sovereign powers for which no
rational basis survives has largely disappeared.
Therefore, barring functions such as administration of
justice ... exercise of sovereign power . Just as
running of passenger buses for the benefit of general
public is not a sovereign function, similarly the
running
undertaking established by the Central Government in the exercise of its sovereign functions, was not an "industry"; and (ii) that there ... being run by the Central Government in the exercise of its sovereign functions. The learned Counsel for the petitioner submitted that this argument became available
industry because it is a statutory commission and has no
sovereign functions and such statutory Commission performing sovereign
functions cannot be said to be industry ... State Policy. It was held
by the Division Bench that sovereign functions have to be strictly understood
and then only they would qualify for exemption
industry because it is a statutory commission and has no
sovereign functions and such statutory Commission performing sovereign
functions cannot be said to be industry ... State Policy. It was held
by the Division Bench that sovereign functions have to be strictly understood
and then only they would qualify for exemption
seizure of the goods was not in exercise of the sovereign functions of the State; that 5779 logs of wood had been seized; and that ... there is a school of thought that the distinction between sovereign and non-sovereign functions of the State, in order
to determine the extent
Advocate is that the accident happened in the execution of delegated sovereign function of the State and, therefore, the State was not liable ... servants and where plea of immunity based on employment referable to sovereign functions is raised, the Court before upholding the plea must find that
