https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277408 A High Court cannot issue mandamus to a subordinate authority to disregard a subsisting superior order when the court lacks jurisdiction to quash that order directly. If the relief sought would require the court to treat the superior revisional order as a nullity, the writ is unavailable until that order is set aside by a competent court. The court cannot do indirectly, through mandamus, what it has no power to do directly. The request for mandamus was therefore rejected. en-us Tue, 21 Dec 1954 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 03 Dec 2018 16:58:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277408 A High Court cannot issue mandamus to a subordinate authority to disregard a subsisting superior order when the court lacks jurisdiction to quash that order directly. If the relief sought would require the court to treat the superior revisional order as a nullity, the writ is unavailable until that order is set aside by a competent court. The court cannot do indirectly, through mandamus, what it has no power to do directly. The request for mandamus was therefore rejected. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 21 Dec 1954 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=277408