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19 May 2025

Writ Maintainable To Safeguard Existing Right

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The Allahabad High Court in Jai Prakash Associates Ltd. v. State of U.P., held that the writ jurisdiction can be invoked to safeguard existing rights and not for seeking to establish any new right.
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The Allahabad High Court in Jai Prakash Associates Ltd. v. State of U.P., held that the writ jurisdiction can be invoked to safeguard existing rights and not for seeking to establish any new right. However, such jurisdiction may be resorted to where the controversy involves a public law element and challenges executive fiat rights on the grounds of being illegal, arbitrary and disproportionate.

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