Friday, July 23, 2010

Court has no competence to issue a direction contrary to law nor the Court can direct an authority to act in contravention of statutory provisions

Please mail me at minturaj@gmail.com if any post/article required to be improved. Court has no competence to issue a direction contrary to law nor the Court can direct an authority to act in contravention of statutory provisions Competence of the District Forum and the hierarchy of the Tribunals constituted under the Act to entertain such a complaint respondent as a student is neither a consumer nor is the appellant rendering any service - Further, appellant is an autonomous body and the decision of the appellant and the statutory provisions have to be implemented through its officers - Hence, District Forum had no jurisdiction to entertain any such complaint - Entire exercise of entertaining the complaint by the District Forum and the award of relief approved by the National Commission do not conform to law - Judgment and order of the District Forum and the National Commission set aside Maharshi Dayanand University vs Surjeet Kaur

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