Party Alleging Bias Need To Show Only Reasonable Likelihood Of Its Existence And Not Absolute Proof : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

Akshita Saxena

4 Dec 2019 10:01 AM IST

  • Party Alleging Bias Need To Show Only Reasonable Likelihood Of Its Existence And Not Absolute Proof : Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

    "Bias connotes a state of mind, and establishment thereof is, therefore, necessarily an uphill exercise. It is for this reason that the degree of proof, where bias is alleged, is somewhat diluted, with the law requiring, not absolute proof of bias, but a reasonable apprehension of a real likelihood that bias exists".

    The Delhi High Court on Monday set aside the appointment of Vice-Principal of Air Force Bal Bharati School on the ground that the selection process was vitiated by reasonalbe likelihood of bias. The judgment was delivered by a single bench of Justice C. Hari Shankar in the case Kalpana Mehdiratta v Air Force Bal Bharati School.Her case was that the participation of the Principal...

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