Judicial control of administrative discretion in India

The book presents a comprehensive and thought provoking study on the Judicial Control of Administrative Discretion in India. It critically analyses the cases decided by the Supreme Court and the High Courts, since 1950, and traces the development and application of various principles, concepts and techniques through whih the courts have tried to keep the administrative discretion within the legal limits during the normal and the emergency times. The book explains how in the largest democracy of the world, the legal control operates at the stage of conferment as well as at the stage of exercise of discretion; and how the courts try to protect a person against an arbitrary, unreasona ble, unfair and unjust exercise of discretion. It also projects the existing and the emerging trends in the development of the law along with a comparative view of the developments in U. K. and U. S. A. The book contains interesting and useful material for the academicians, practising lawyers, judges, administrators and students ot law.