Old Jalukai Village Council vs Kakiho Village 2025 INSC 766 - Judicial Review Of Cabinet Decisions
Constitution of India - Article 32,226 - Cabinet Decisions- When the State has taken a policy decision or through its Cabinet has arrived at a certain conclusion, in their wisdom, after exhaustively considering all the relevant factors and recommendations, it would not be appropriate for courts to interfere or supplant the finding arrived at by the government. In the absence of any patent arbitrariness, capriciousness, mala fides or illegality, courts have always subscribed to the rule that executive decision-making must not be dissected and prodded unnecessarily. (Para 56) When an executive Cabinet decision is the outcome of sound reasoning, an inclusive consideration of all the relevant factors and based on recommendations, it cannot be sought to be faulted with, especially through judicial intervention. Assailing it in the absence of arbitrariness and merely because a ‘better’ alternate view could have been taken or was possible, would not suffice in order to strike down such a decision or render it inoperative. (Para 60)
