https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186994 A regulatory statute governing private educational institutions was found unconstitutional because it vested wide discretion in the authority and State Government to grant, refuse, cancel, or exempt permissions without objective standards or guiding policy. The absence of intelligible criteria was held to create arbitrary administration, offending Article 14, and the restrictions on carrying on an occupation were also treated as unjustified for want of workable norms to support the regulatory intrusion. As the impugned provisions formed the backbone of the permission-and-supervision scheme, they were held not severable, and the enactment was treated as incapable of surviving in part. en-us Thu, 05 Oct 1989 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 06 Oct 2016 12:20:33 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186994 A regulatory statute governing private educational institutions was found unconstitutional because it vested wide discretion in the authority and State Government to grant, refuse, cancel, or exempt permissions without objective standards or guiding policy. The absence of intelligible criteria was held to create arbitrary administration, offending Article 14, and the restrictions on carrying on an occupation were also treated as unjustified for want of workable norms to support the regulatory intrusion. As the impugned provisions formed the backbone of the permission-and-supervision scheme, they were held not severable, and the enactment was treated as incapable of surviving in part. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 05 Oct 1989 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=186994