TMI Blog2005 (11) TMI 50X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... o the petitioner if so advised, to approach the Committee as indicated above - - - - - Dated:- 25-11-2005 - Judge(s) : A. K. YOG., PRAKASH KRISHNA. JUDGMENT The title and description of the present petition is an interesting one. It is Union of India v. Union of India. We do not know who is fighting and against whom. It is said that learned counsel appearing for the Union of India and opposed by another counsel representing the Union of India is not aware of the Supreme Court's judgments namely Oil and Natural Gas Commission v. Collector of Central Excise [1995] Supp 4 SCC 541 followed subsequently in the case of Chief Conservator of Forests, Government of Andhra Pradesh v. Collector AIR 2003 SC 1805. For convenience paras. 3 and 4 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the controversy arising between various Departments of the State or the State and any of its undertakings. It would be appropriate for the State Governments to set up a Committee consisting of the Chief Secretary of the State, the Secretaries of the concerned Departments, the Secretary of Law and where financial commitments are involved, the Secretary of Finance. The decision taken by such a Committee shall be binding on all the Departments concerned and shall be the stand of the Government. 15. Now, reverting to the facts of the case on hand, we are of the view that after the said statutory order of the Commissioner of Survey, Settlement and Land Record, the matter should have rested there. We have, therefore, no hesitation in coming to ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... on to file the appeal in his own name, contrary to law. It could only be a permission to file the appeal in the name of the State of Andhra Pradesh in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution and the Civil Procedure Code. We may also record that in spite of the Pattedars taking objection to that effect at the earliest, no steps were taken to substitute or implead the State of Andhra Pradesh in the writ petition in the High Court or in the appeal in this court." Considering the ratio laid down in the aforesaid decisions, it is a mandatory obligation upon every court and Tribunal where a dispute is raised between Ministry and Ministry of the Government of India, Ministry and public sector undertakings of the Government of India an ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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