https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297732 A Tribunal constituted under Section 60 of the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 must be composed in the manner mandated by the statute, and its members must participate in adjudication unless absence is unavoidable. The Court treated the Tribunal as a composite statutory quasi-judicial body whose award is the award of a court, making proper constitution mandatory rather than directory. An award made by an incompletely constituted Tribunal, consisting only of the President, was therefore coram non judice, invalid, and liable to be set aside. The matter was remitted for fresh adjudication by a properly constituted Tribunal. en-us Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Mon, 20 Sep 2021 16:53:50 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297732 A Tribunal constituted under Section 60 of the Punjab Town Improvement Act, 1922 must be composed in the manner mandated by the statute, and its members must participate in adjudication unless absence is unavoidable. The Court treated the Tribunal as a composite statutory quasi-judicial body whose award is the award of a court, making proper constitution mandatory rather than directory. An award made by an incompletely constituted Tribunal, consisting only of the President, was therefore coram non judice, invalid, and liable to be set aside. The matter was remitted for fresh adjudication by a properly constituted Tribunal. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297732