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2012 Supreme(AP) 719

GODA RAGHURAM, M.S.RAMACHANDRA RAO
Government of Andhra Pradesh, Represented by its Chief Secretary – Appellant
Versus
P. Goutham Kumar, IPS – Respondent


Advocates Appeared:
For the Petitioners:The Advocate General, V.V. Prabhakar Rao, Advocate.
For the Respondents:R1, C.V. Mohan Reddy, learned Senior counsel for J. Sudheer Advocate, R2, P. Ashok Goud, Asst. Solicitor General, R3, V. Venkata Ramana, learned Senior Counsel, The learned Advocate General for GP for General Administration.

Judgment :-

Government cannot be relied upon to behave voluntarily as the Constitution demands. Neither the effective maintenance of structural checks and balances, nor the adequate discharge of government’s affirmative [minimal or expansive] obligations, are likely without some form of intervention from a point at least partially outside of ordinary majoritarian politics (American Constitutional Law – Lawrence H. Tribe – 2nd Edition – Foundation Press).

Judicial review provides the legitimate intervention that could steer the course of governance back on course, when it loses sight of the constitutional destination.

The judicial process is after all a major ingredient of freedom, despite a government under a constitutional order. The present lis is illustrative of continual executive preoccupation with a fundamental misconception; that un-canalized, uncharted, unregulated and absolute discretion is essential for effective governance. The rigor of history of structured societies and their formal institutions of governance, ancient, medieval or modern and regardless of the architecture of governance, emphatically belies this assumption. The millenary engagement with the misconception




































































































































































































































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