1965 (11) TMI 68

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.... wilful acts of insubordination. It is at this stage that the petitioner has come to this court with a petition under article 226 with a prayer that the proceedings against her may be quashed. In the affidavit accompanying her petition, she denies the substance of the charges. She further alleges that there are no valid reasons for placing her under suspension. She claims that hen request to allow her father to be present at the enquiry proposed to be conducted has been refused and that this denial prevents her from effectively and fully defending herself, the more so for the reason that she herself had complained of an attempt at misbehaviour on the part of a superior employee. On behalf of the Corporation, it is stated that the complai....

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....ppearing for the B.T. Examination. This court observed that the syndicate must be deemed to have the power and indeed the duty to recommend suitable cased for exemption to the university. But it was accepted that the university is a public body which is vested with such power. This decision did not examine the question of the scope of the writ jurisdiction in general with reference to non-statutory organisations, though they might be public bodies in the sense that a public company is a species of a public body. In Vasudevan v. S.N.D.P. Yogam AIR 1958 Ker. 164, the learned judges observed that merely because the disciplinary proceedings are by a domestic tribunal, the High Court is not denied of its jurisdiction to interfere under article 2....

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....e. The employer is a company registered under the Companies Act. The fact that the company is wholly government-owned does not alter its character in the eye of law. For the reason that it is government-owned, it does not purport to exercise any authority conferred upon it by the Government. It is not performing any statutory duties. Mr. S. Gopalaratnam, learned counsel for the respondents, has referred to Nagabhushana Reddi, In re [1950] 2 MLJ 278 in which a writ of prohibition sought against the All India Congress Committee in connection with its proceedings for election was refused. Lakshmiah Reddiar v. Sriperumbudur Taluk Co-operative Marketing Society Ltd. [1961] 2 MLJ 279 dealt with the proceedings of the board of directors of a co....