https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291028 Section 42 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 was treated as conferring a quasi-judicial power because it required notice, hearing and a determination of legality or propriety on disputed facts. An order made under that power was therefore amenable to certiorari. The impugned order also rested on unsupported factual assumptions, including alleged shortage of area and lack of voluntary acceptance of repartition, while the confirmed consolidation scheme had already attained finality. The authority could not, in an individual case, disregard that scheme and split the holdings contrary to its terms, so the order was quashable in certiorari. en-us Fri, 06 Dec 1957 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 26 Oct 2020 11:14:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291028 Section 42 of the East Punjab Holdings (Consolidation and Prevention of Fragmentation) Act, 1948 was treated as conferring a quasi-judicial power because it required notice, hearing and a determination of legality or propriety on disputed facts. An order made under that power was therefore amenable to certiorari. The impugned order also rested on unsupported factual assumptions, including alleged shortage of area and lack of voluntary acceptance of repartition, while the confirmed consolidation scheme had already attained finality. The authority could not, in an individual case, disregard that scheme and split the holdings contrary to its terms, so the order was quashable in certiorari. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 06 Dec 1957 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=291028