'Industry' Definition Reference : Live Updates From Supreme Court 9-Judge Bench Hearing
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17 March 2026 10:20 AM IST

Live Updates
- 17 March 2026 2:42 PM IST
CJ: within the head of g2, you have summed that sovereign functions can't be put into a stated formula.
AG: I thought we will put the sovereign function debate in distinct legal domains like civil wrongs, consumer etc...I think city of nagpure is incorrectly affirmed
J Nagarathna: then only remedy is by way of suit
- 17 March 2026 2:38 PM IST
AG: so to take charge of the period within 1978 to 2025, i think it will be important to keep all of them as a corpus of principles
J Nagarathna: so according to you sovereign functions must be narrowly interpreted?
AG: it requires an ambivalent understanding. the bangalore water seems to have some kind of a show on many of these considerations
- 17 March 2026 2:38 PM IST
CJ: particularly under the head of consideration of soverign function in industrial law, I think that it explains your view point.
AG: if more than 1959s the courts are trying to courageously find out the meaning and it is in this context of the new law can throw some light for adjudication
- 17 March 2026 2:37 PM IST
AG: on sovereign funtions, i have some submission to make- in civil wrongs liability, we don't get into that because that happens in an entirely different domain. it may or not definitely throw a light on sovereign functions in the context of what i call mandated activitiy undertaken for public welfare
