UNION OF INDIA Vs. MURASOLI MARAN:G LAKSHMANAN

JUDGEMENT

(1.) These appeals are by certificate against judgment and order dated 29th January ,1971 of the High Court of Madras.

(2.) The respondents filed writ petitions in the High Court for a declaration that the Presidential order dated 27the April, 1960, the Railway Board Orders dated 25th January, 1962, Memoranda or Orders of the Ministry of Home Affairs dated 3rd March , 1966, and the Posts and Telegraph Department Orders dated 6th February, 1965, 4th December, 1965, 23rd September, 1967, 19th June, 1968 and 9th February, 1970 are void.

(3.) The Presidential order dated 27th April, 1960, was inter alia as follows:-